How your online world could change if big tech companies like Google are forced to break up

By Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University

The US Department of Justice may be on the verge of seeking a break-up of Google in a bid to make it less dominant. If the government goes ahead and is successful in the courts, it could mean the company being split into separate entities – a search engine, an advertising company, a video website, a mapping app – which would not be allowed to share data with each other.

While this is still a distant prospect, it is being considered in the wake of a series…

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