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By Elliot Gulliver-Needham The US government is weighing up a break-up of Google in an attempt to end its monopoly over much of the internet. The US Department of Justice has said that it was considering asking a judge to impose “structural requirements” on the tech giant to prevent it from maintaining its dominance on search. “Fully remedying these harms requires not only ending Google’s control of distribution today, but also ensuring Google cannot control the distribution of tomorrow,” the DoJ said. Other remedies that could be pursued include forcing Google to share user search data with r…

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