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Google, referred to by the name of its parent company Alphabet, was the most used website in Northern Ireland and the most popular search engine.

The Justice Department is trying to make consumers more aware of choices outside of Google, the world’s most popular search engine.

Another potential fix includes requiring Google to display a “choice screen” on every Google browser when a user hasn’t selected a default search engine.

Instead, the company thinks the government should focus solutions more narrowly on agreements it has with Apple, Mozilla, smartphone manufacturers and wireless carriers that require the companies to favor Google’s search engine over others.

That Google be stopped from paying companies like Apple to be the default search engine on their devices, an arrangement that netted the iPhone maker as much as $1 billion a month by 2021.