Google Doesn't Have To Sell Chrome, Judge In Monopoly Case Rules

Google will not person to divest its Chrome browser but will person to alteration immoderate of its business practices, a national judge has ruled. The ruling comes much than a twelvemonth aft nan aforesaid judge ruled that Google had acted illegally to support a monopoly successful net search.

Following nan ruling past year, nan Department of Justice had proposed that Google should beryllium forced to waste Chrome. But successful a 230-page decision, Judge Amit Mehta said nan authorities had "overreached" successful its request. "Google will not beryllium required to divest Chrome; nor will nan tribunal see a contingent divestiture of nan Android operating strategy successful nan last judgment," Mehta wrote. "Plaintiffs overreached successful seeking forced divesture of these cardinal assets, which Google did not usage to effect immoderate forbidden restraints."

Google will, however, nary longer beryllium permitted to onslaught exclusive deals for distributing search, Google Assistant, Gemini aliases Chrome, Mehta ruled. The institution will beryllium capable to proceed to salary partners — for illustration Apple — for pre-loading hunt and different apps into their products. Mehta said that ending these arrangements could origin "downstream harms to distribution partners, related markets, and consumers."

Google didn't instantly respond to a petition for comment. The institution has antecedently indicated it plans to entreaty the ruling, but said successful June it would hold for nan court's opinion.

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