Despite the tech giant's efforts last week to persuade officials to drop the idea, the DOJ on Friday still called for Google to divest its popular Chrome browser-and potentially Android-as part of its ongoing search antitrust case.

"Google’s illegal conduct has created an economic goliath, one that wreaks havoc over the marketplace to ensure that—no matter what occurs—Google always wins," the DOJ filing says. To that end, the government maintains that Chrome must go if the playing field is to be made level again.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has recently suggested that Google should sell or separate certain parts of its business, especially Chrome