A federal judge in the United States has ruled that Google will not have to sell his Chrome Web browser to fix his illegal monopoly in online search business.
However, it will need to share data with some other things, such as rival companies.
DC District Court Judge Amit Mehta handed over the treatment decision, which last year, Google violated non -confidence laws in relation to its online search business.
This was not the worst case for Google, and after the news, the share of his parents' alphabetical shares increased by 8 %. But this decision can still have a significant impact on the Tech Dev – and the entire Internet.
What was actually the matter?
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a non -confidence case against Google in 2020, in the debate that Tech Dev used special contracts to unfairly box rivals like Apple and Samsung, with instrumentalists like Apple and Samsung.
For years, Google allegedly calculated 90 % of all the search questions in the United States, called “anticomapatio tactics” to maintain and expand its monopolies in search and search advertisement.
In August 2024, Judge Mehta ruled in favor of the DOJ, Google has maintained an illegal monopoly.
The issue is focused on the practice of entering Google's discharge contracts, which collectively closed the basic routes through which users gain access to online search, which makes Google a common search engine on billions of mobile devices and computers-and especially on Apple Devices.
Treatment – proposed and original
The DOJ called for the Chrome browser and possibly the sale of its Android operating system, and sharing search data. It states that these treatments will restrict the ability to monitor Google's search market and prevent it from gaining unfair advantage of other markets, especially artificial intelligence (AI).
The DOJ also called for the removal of billions of dollars in contracts with Apple and other partners.
Judge Mehta's decision to treat the DOJ's toughest demands was significantly reduced.
Under ordered treatment, Google will be prevented from entering or maintaining special contracts related to Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, and AI -powered Gemini app distribution.
Google cannot enter the contracts that condition the licensing of any Google Application at the distribution or space, or pay for the terms of maintaining these products more than a year on any device.
Google will also have to provide competitors to its search results and access to quality rates to advertising services. This will help them provide them with standard search results while building their technology.
However, Google will not be prevented from paying the device to pay this product in advance, including Google Search and Generative AI products.
A technical committee will be set up to help implement the final decision, which will continue for six years and will be implemented 60 days after admission. Judge Mehta ordered the parties to meet on September 10 for the final decision.
Immediately after the judge's decision, Google issued a statement reiterating the preliminary decision in August 2024, which it still plans to appeal.
Today's decision recognizes how much has changed into the industry through the arrival of AI, which is providing people with many ways to find information. It has been pointed out that since the matter was filed in 2020, what are we saying: The competition is intense and people can easily choose their desired services.
More cases incoming
The decision opens up in the search market, while allowing Google to maintain its basic business structure. Data sharing requirements can especially benefit the AI rivals who need Large Large Large Details for their models training.
Google faces additional distrust of this search issue. In April 2025, US District Judge Leonie Burkima found Google illegally monopolized advertising technology markets. The treatment of this case is scheduled later this month.
As William Kovask, a professor of global competition law and former Federal Trade Commissioner at George Washington University, told Tech Crunch:
We have never had a situation in which there are two large -scale parallel cases of the Justice Department, including major elements of alleged mismanagement against the same dominant firm, in which two parallel processing is moving forward.
However, Google rivals believe treatment should have been more severe in this case.
In a statement, Gabriel Veneberg, the chief executive of the search engine's contestant Dick Dickgo, claimed that Google would still be allowed to continue using his monopoly to stop rivals, including the AI search, “he also called on the US Congress to” rapidly play Google to play more than to fight Google. “
It seems that the DOJ will need to dominate the AI search field so that it can get treatment that will meet Dickgo.
The full resolution of these matters will not be the end of the end of 2027 or the early 2028, as Google has indicated that it will appeal both responsibility and remedies.
- Senior Research Associate in Rob Nichols, Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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