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| Google keeps search engine but must share data with rivals | Google keeps search engine but must share data with rivals |
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| Google will not have to sell its Chrome search engine but must share information with competitors, a US federal judge has ordered. | Google will not have to sell its Chrome search engine but must share information with competitors, a US federal judge has ordered. |
| The remedies decided by District Judge Amit Mehta have emerged after a years-long court battle over Google's dominance in online search. | The remedies decided by District Judge Amit Mehta have emerged after a years-long court battle over Google's dominance in online search. |
| The case centred around Google's position as the default search engine on a range of its own products such as Android and Chrome as well as others made by the likes of Apple. | |
| The US Department of Justice had demanded that Google sell Chrome - Tuesday's decision means the tech giant can keep it but it will be barred from having exclusive contracts and must share search data with rivals. | The US Department of Justice had demanded that Google sell Chrome - Tuesday's decision means the tech giant can keep it but it will be barred from having exclusive contracts and must share search data with rivals. |
| Google had proposed less drastic solutions, such as limiting its revenue-sharing agreements with firms like Apple to make its search engine the default on their devices and browsers. | Google had proposed less drastic solutions, such as limiting its revenue-sharing agreements with firms like Apple to make its search engine the default on their devices and browsers. |
| The tech giant had denied wrongdoing since charges were first filed against it in 2020, saying its market dominance is because its search engine is a superior product to others and consumer simply prefer it to others. | The tech giant had denied wrongdoing since charges were first filed against it in 2020, saying its market dominance is because its search engine is a superior product to others and consumer simply prefer it to others. |
| Last year, Judge Mehta ruled that Google had used unfair methods to establish a monopoly over the online search market, actively working to maintain a level of dominance to the extent it broke US law. | Last year, Judge Mehta ruled that Google had used unfair methods to establish a monopoly over the online search market, actively working to maintain a level of dominance to the extent it broke US law. |
| But in his decision, Judge Mehta said a complete sell off of Chrome was "a poor fit for this case". | |
| Google will also not have to sell off its Android operating system - which powers most of the world's smartphones. | |
| The company had claimed that off-loading parts of its operations, such as Android, would mean they effectively stop working properly. | |
| Shares in Alphabet, Google's parent company, jumped by more than 6% shortly after the judge's ruling was published. | |
| Gene Munster, managing partner at Deepwater Asset Management, said the ruling was "good news for big tech". | |
| "Apple also gets a nice win because the ruling forces Google to renegotiate the search deal annually," he said on X. | |
| Judge Mehta's ruling "doesn't seem to be as draconian as the market was expecting," said Melissa Otto, head of research at S&P Global Visible Alpha. | |
| With Google's search operation expected to generate close to $200bn this year, and tens of billions of that expected to go to distribution partners it is a win-win for the major corporate players involved in the case, Ms Otto said. | |
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