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Cai Ding, reporter of Meijing, Lan Suying, editor of Meijing

On Tuesday, August 13, Eastern Time, foreign media quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that withA U.S. court ruled last week that Google's search business violated U.S. antitrust laws.The U.S. Justice Department is considering a rare move: breaking up Google.

The move would be the first time the U.S. government has considered breaking up a company as an illegal monopoly since an unsuccessful effort to break up Microsoft 24 years ago.Other options the Justice Department is considering include forcing Google to share more data with competitors and taking steps to prevent it from gaining an unfair advantage in its artificial intelligence products.

However, no matter what measures the US authorities take in the end, they may seek an injunction on exclusive contracts, which are at the heart of Google's monopoly case.If the U.S. Department of Justice moves forward with its plan to break up Google, the most likely units to be divested would be the Android operating system and its web browser Chrome.One of the insiders also said,The Justice Department is also considering forcing Google to sell AdWords, its platform for selling text ads.The authorities are meeting with other companies and experts to discuss their proposals to limit Google's power.

Influenced by the above news, Google's parent company Alphabet's U.S. stock fell 2.5% after the market closed on Tuesday, but then recovered some of its losses and fell 0.9% as of press time. A Google spokesperson declined to comment on possible remedies, and a U.S. Department of Justice spokesperson also declined to comment.