A federal judge decided on Tuesday that “a part of Google’s punishment and an antagomatative behavior to work” to maintain their monopoly “is to share your search result data with rivals. This decision by the US District Court Judge Amit Mehta in the case of Columbia district (DOJ) v. Was done in Google.
Doj asked that Google should be forced to sell his Chrome web browser to solve allegations of anti -comitative behavior, but the judge rejected that request, writing in one 223 page rule Instead, he will order a change in the commercial practices of Google to prevent it from monopoly in the market.
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Mehta proposed that instead Google should stop entering or maintaining special delivery deals with other companies, chrome, Gemini and Google assistants. For example, Google will not be able to tie the play store licensing agreements on the condition that companies distribute their apps.
Google is also worked with data sharing, such as user interaction data and search index data, with “qualified competitors” and charging standard rates to these rivals for search and search advertising services.
Judge Amit Mehta. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Image
In a statement On Tuesday, Google wrote that new measures, which require it to share the search data with the contestants, could affect the user privacy and it was looking at the decision.
Google wrote in response to the ruling, “Now the court has laid down the limits of how we distribute Google services, and we will need to share the search data with rivals.” “We worry about how these requirements will affect our users and their privacy, and we are closely reviewing the decision.”
A committee will be established to fulfill Mehta’s final decision, which will last for six years and will be effective within 60 days, per per. Tekkachchan,
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Mehta’s final decision comes a year later when he decided that Google worked illegally by working to maintain a search monopoly. After 10 weeks of tests in a statement in August 2024, Mehta called Google Multi-billion dollars accord with Apple, Samsung and Mozilla To become a default search engine on their products and services. He labeled the agreements “exclusive” and “anticomatic”.
“Google is an monopolist, and has worked as one to maintain its monopoly,” Mehta has written 286 page statement In August 2024.
DOJ filed first Antitrest case in 2020 And asked the judge for strict punishment. The department wanted to force Google to sell its chrome and Android businesses, resulting in an unwanted bid: AI search engine startup perplexity Offered to buy chrome Last month for $ 34.5 billion cash.
Doj also wanted to eliminate Google’s agreements with Apple, Samsung and other partners so that they could become a default search engine on their web browsers. Google paid more $ 26 billion in 2021 To become a default web browser on many platforms, about 18 billion dollars are going to Apple.
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The case probably “will not end in the end of 2027 or at the beginning of 2028,” the possible appeal of Google will not end until a possible growth in factoring and Supreme Court. Tekkachchan,
Google is also involved in a separate antitrust trial about its advertising business. In April 2025, Judge Leoni Binkema ruled in Alexandria, Virginia, that Google had actually acted in a digital advertisement to maintain monopoly power. The treatment test for that suit is determined in the end of September.
Google almost held 90% Search engine market share in March.
A federal judge decided on Tuesday that “a part of Google’s punishment and an antagomatative behavior to work” to maintain their monopoly “is to share your search result data with rivals. This decision by the US District Court Judge Amit Mehta in the case of Columbia district (DOJ) v. Was done in Google.
Doj asked that Google should be forced to sell his Chrome web browser to solve allegations of anti -comitative behavior, but the judge rejected that request, writing in one 223 page rule Instead, he will order a change in the commercial practices of Google to prevent it from monopoly in the market.
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