"US Federal Judge Amit P Mehta delivered the landmark ruling on Monday, rejecting the Department of Justice's (DOJ) demand to break up the search giant while allowing it to continue paying Apple for default search placement - a decision that preserves one of the tech industry's most lucrative partnerships. Judge Mehta, however, ordered Google to share search data with rivals to ensure competition in online search."
"Google will not be required to divest Chrome; nor will the court include a contingent divestiture of the Android operating system in the final judgment," Judge Mehta wrote in his 230-page opinion, handing Google a significant victory in the most consequential antitrust case against a tech company in decades. The ruling caps a legal saga that began in October 2020 when the DOJ accused Google of illegally maintaining search monopolies through exclusive distribution agreements worth over $26 billion annually."
A federal judge, Amit P Mehta, declined to order divestiture of Google’s Chrome browser or a contingent breakup of Android, preserving core businesses. The court allowed Google to continue paying Apple for default search placement while imposing behavioral remedies instead of structural breakup. The judgment requires Google to share search data with rivals under a multiyear mandate to promote online search competition. The DOJ opened the case in October 2020, alleging exclusive distribution agreements worth over $26 billion annually, and the court had found Google liable in August 2024. Google expressed concerns about data-sharing impacts on user privacy.
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