"The 226-page decision made by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C., will likely ripple across the technological landscape at a time when the industry is being reshaped by artificial intelligence breakthroughs - including conversational "answer engines" as companies like ChatGPT and Perplexity try to upend Google's long-held position as the internet's main gateway. Mehta is trying to rein in Google by placing new restraints on some of the tactics the company deployed to drive traffic to its search engine and other services."
"But the judge stopped short of banning the multi-billion dollar deals that Google has been making for years to lock in its search engine as the default on smartphones, personal computers and other devices. Those deals, involving payments of more than $26 billion annually, were a focal point of a nearly five-year-old antitrust case brought by the U.S. Justice Department."
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ordered a substantial overhaul of Google's search engine to curb alleged monopoly practices while rejecting calls to break up the company. The 226-page ruling restricts some tactics used to steer traffic to Google's services but preserves multi-billion-dollar default-search deals on devices. The judge also declined to require Google to sell Chrome. The order compels Google to grant competitors access to aggregated search data derived from trillions of queries. The decision arrives as AI-driven conversational "answer engines" challenge Google's search dominance and could reshape competition across the technology sector.
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