Google avoids break up, but has to give up exclusive search deals in antitrust trial

Google will not be forced to break his search business, but a federal judge has temporarily ordered other changes in the business practice of Tech Giants to protect it from more opposing behavior.

US District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta Tuesday revealed the outline of the remedy that would prevent Google from entering or maintaining exclusive deals that type in search, Chrome, Google Assistant, or Gemini’s distribution in other applications or earnings. For example, Google will not be able to pay for the store licensing play licensing or specific applications for the distribution of specific applications.

Google will also have to share some specific search index and user-intercept data with “eligible contestants” to prevent exclusionary behavior and it must provide competitors at the standard rate and provide syndication services so that they can provide quality results while creating their own technology.

Mehta has not yet issued a final verdict. Instead, he ordered Google and the judiciary to “meet and deliver” and ordered a revised final verdict by September 10, which was combined with his opinion.

Behavioral remedies come a year later Mehta has ruled that Google has worked illegally To maintain exclusive in online search. A technical committee will be established to help the final judgment implement, which will last six years and will be effective 60 days after entrance.

DOJ, which has filed it Antitrast suit against Google in 2020Was in favor of a more powerful penalty. It wanted to make Google its chrome browser and probably to divest Android divest, resulting in something that happened Bid in unreasonable acquisitionAnd ending its contracts with Apple, Samsung and other partners where the technology giant paid billions of billions to display those companies as default choices on their devices and web browsers.

The Apple stock has popped up hours later on the news that it could continue its profitable deal with Google. Google has spent more than $ 26 billion in 2021 to secure default search placements on devices $ 18 billion This expense only went to Apple, with whom Google shared 36% of his search advertisement from Safari. Next year, Google has paid Apple more more20 billionThe terms of the distribution agreement.

During the trial, the judge emphasized that most users are on the default, those places “extremely valuable real estate” that effectively lock rivals and knees their ability to challenge Google exclusively.

The DOJ also called on Google to share Google to share search indicators, user-side data, synthetic query and ADS data under the privacy-protected conditions.

Google, which has maintained about 90% of market shares compared to the Traditional Funeral Investigation Market for the past decade, argued that the government’s proposals would continue to innovate, threatens the privacy of the user and reduce the power of investment in the company’s research and development. CEO Beautiful Pichai said during the remedy hearing in April that the data would be shared as “sharing the data”In fact“For Google Search.

During the remedy hearing in April, the judge Mehta suggested that he would consider Europe’s digital markets as a reference point. Google requires Google to share specific clicks and query data with the third party of the DMA. In contrast, Mehta’s order is narrow and temporary against the ongoing responsibility of the DMA. It is much more limited to the sweeping access to the DOJ, which includes the source code, full search ranking algorithm and extensive infrastructure, which Google says it will remove its entire intellectual property.

“This has inspired a major controversy over whether Europeans are correct with the Digital Markets Act,” Covasic says. “This is, do you need descriptive rules, or do you rely on the technical field by judging the case?”

Put another way: “European experience here has said something about the potential and implementation. Does Google tell us something about what can live with?”

The same question around the regulators to re -size Google’s business will also be a big size in the fight for other disbelievers of the Tech Giant.

Judge Mehta’s decision can also affect the outcome of a separate disbelief, Google is currently involved in its advertising technology business. April 2025, Judge Leone Brinkema discovered it Google illegally add-tech markets are exclusiveThe The trial of the remedy has been determined in late September and will focus on the DOJ’s proposed divestocracy and other measures.

“We have never been in circumstances where the judiciary has two parallel cases that are proceeding against the same influential firm, which is involved in the main elements of the misconduct against the complaint that the two parallel remedies are moving forward,” a World Competition Law Professor and former Federal Trade Commissioner, George Washington University, told Techkrank.

Covasic also added that Mehta has revealed his much -anticipated remedy, although Google’s appeal and potential growth in the Supreme Court “This drama has a lot of work.” “It will not end at the end of 2027 or early 2028,” he said.

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