Google will ask Android users which browser and search engine they want to use

Android users will be able to choose which browser and search engine they prefer when browsing their mobile. Google will have to ask after the sanction imposed by the Commission European. Last year, EU regulators forced the company to pay a fine of some 4.4 billion euros to the exchange for violating antitrust laws. It was ordered to end the "illegal linking" of Chrome and its search app on Android.

Before this sanction, Google made Android available to manufacturers, but required that apps such as Chrome, Google Play or Google Search be included. From now on, this will be different for Europe. Google has changed the licensing model for its apps, so that manufacturers can choose whether to install them or not. This will be valid for the Google Chrome browser, the Google Play store or Google Search.

The US firm has not reported when this will happen. He has not given an exact date, he has only mentioned that it will happen in the coming months. It has also not disclosed which competing products will be recommended. In any case, from Google they have remembered that they have always given freedom to manufacturers to install any alternative application along with others from Google.Android phones have always been given the option of installing any browser or search engine,"regardless of which one came pre-installed."

The move has inevitably been compared to what happened to Microsoft a few years ago, when the European Commission ruled that the company was breaking antitrust laws, abusing its dominant position in the browser market . The company had to pay a fine of 900 million euros and give its users the choice of which default browser they wanted to use, beyond Internet Explorer (now Microsoft Edge).