US prosecutors asked a judge on Wednesday to force Alphabet's Google to divest its Chrome browser, share data and search results with competitors and take other steps to end its internet search monopoly.

Axar.az reports that, citing DW, a court filing showed that the Department of Justice urged Google be banned from becoming the default search engine on smartphones, preventing the US tech giant from exploiting its Android mobile operating system.

The world's most popular web browser, Chrome provides user information to Google that helps the company profitably personalize which ads users see. Google controls about 90% of the online search market with over 60% of users relying on Google Chrome to perform those searches.

The sale of Chrome would "permanently stop Google's control of this critical search access point and allow rival search engines the ability to access the browser that for many users is a gateway to the internet," the Justice Department said.