Speculate on GOOG - what'd be the best countermove against DoJ slaps?

- DoJ said, Google should divest off Chrome and may not reenter the browser market for five years
- prohibited from "acquiring any interests in search rivals, potential entrants, and rival search or search ads-related AI products"
- halt all "anticompetitive payments to distributors, including Apple, Samsung" so that Google isn't the default search engine on their devices
- content creators can choose to opt-out of Google crawlers to train its AI

Most obvious historical comparison is case against Microsoft Corp. in 2001; the DoJ tried to split Microsoft up due to its hold over the web browser market on Windows, though this case ultimately resulted in a settlement. With that in mind, it is possible, the DoJ will go this way, this time.

- Search is close to 50% revenue of Google [Q3 results]
- Browsers market shares: Chrome 60%, Safari 18%, Edge 8% [Source can be contested, because it's larger devices stats only]
- Android - 70% market share in handheld devices

GOOG has to fight hard to ensure a high search traffic. It may have a few options up its sleeves.

Any other speculations? With so much uncertainty, the stock will remain under pressure with downward bias, until there's clarity on the case.

But at PE 22, even if total revenue of the demerged companies, takes a hit of 30%, it's still a great value.