US lawyers will reportedly try to force Google to sell Chrome and separate Android

The Justice Department plans to ask Google's antitrust trial judge to force the company to sell its Chrome browser after the judge ruled that the company maintained an illegal search monopoly, Bloomberg reports.

Chrome is the world's most widely used browser, and government lawyers have argued that its use in cross-promoting Google's products is one of the things limiting the channels and incentives available to stifle competition.

The requirements officials are preparing to propose include forcing Google to separate Android from Search and Google Play, but without forcing Google to sell Android. Another requirement would be that it would have to share more information with advertisers and that would "give them more control over where their ads are displayed," the outlet writes.

Bloomberg also reports that officials will recommend that the company "give websites more options to prevent their content from being used by Google's artificial intelligence products." Finally, they will reportedly push for "bans on the type of exclusive contracts that are at the center of the case against Google."

Bloomberg writes that Google's vice president of regulatory affairs, Lee-Anne Mulholland, said the Justice Department was "pushing a radical agenda that goes far beyond the legal issues in this case."