Japan antitrust watchdog hits Google with cease and desist order (asia.nikkei.com)

That's the thing with antitrust. They already did it, they already got the advantage. The penalties need to be enormous to reverse the advantage they already took

Current title "Japan orders Google to stop favoring Google Search, Chrome on Android" is better.

At this point even if search and browser were completely neutral choices on Android it wouldn't change things much. Search is even losing relevance to LLMs.

The thing Japan's FTC was worried about was a bit of a mystery to me.

A search app? One doesn't start a browser and go to a search page?

Sorry, I don't run the goggle malware, so I wasn't aware...