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Google will not have to sell its Chrome Web Briviser, but must share information with competitors, the US Federal Judge has ordered.
The orientation bodies adopted by the district judge Amite Macht appeared after a long -term judicial battle for Google’s dominance on the Internet.
The case has been focused around Google’s position as a default search engine on various own products such as Android and Chrome, as well as other Apple similar.
The US Department of Justice had demanded from Google to sell chrome – The decision on Tuesday means that the technological giant can save it, but it will be banned from exclusive contracts and should share your search data data.
Google suggested less sharp solutions, such as restriction of income agreements with firms such as Apple to make your search engine default on their devices and browsers.
On Tuesday, the company noted that it considered the ruling as a victory, and stated that the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) probably contributed to the result.
“Today’s decision admits how much the industry has changed through the emergence of the II, which gives people so many other ways to find information,” Google said in a statement after the ruling.
“This emphasizes what we said because this case was filed in 2020: the competition is intense and people can easily choose the services they want,” the statement said.
The technical giant refused the violation because the charges were first filed against him in 2020, saying that his dominance on the market is that its search engine is a great product for others, and consumers simply prefer others.
Last year, Judge Macht ruled that Google used unfair methods to set a monopoly on the Internet search market, actively working on maintaining the level of domination to such an extent that it violated the US law.
But in his decision, Judge Macht said that the full sale of Chrome was “bad for the case”.
Google also does not have to sell its Android operating system, which nourishes most smartphones in the world.
The company claimed that the outbreak of parts of its activity, such as Android, would mean that they will stop working effectively.
“Today’s order of legal protection has agreed to restore the competition in the market for a long-monopolized search, and we are now weighed our capabilities and reflect whether the relief will be far enough to serve this goal,” wrote Assistant Prosecutor Abigail Sleter after the ruling.
Alphabet stocks, Google Mother’s Company, jumped over 8% after the ruling.
Smartphones such as Apple, Samsung and Motorola will also win.
Before Google’s decree, billions of dollars paid such firms to load or promote the technology company.
The court found that Google paid more than $ 26 billion for such transactions with Apple, Mozilla and others in 2021.
Google will now not be allowed to conclude any exclusive contracts for Google, Chrome, Google Assistant or Gemini app.
This means that phones manufacturers will download or promote other search engines, browsers or assistants II as well as Google.
Google, however, will be able to continue to pay distributors for the default location.
Gin Monster, head of Deepwater’s Asset Management Management partner, said the ruling was a “good news for great technology.”
“Apple also gets a good victory because the governing makes Google annually talked the deal,” he said on X.
Judge Mehta’s ruling “seems not as Dracony as the market was waiting,” said Melissa Otto, Head of the S&P Global Visible Alpha research department.
As a result of Google search this year, nearly $ 200 billion will be created, and tens of billion, which is expected to go to Distribut Partners, is a win -win win for major corporate players involved in the case, said Ms. Otto.
But the Google DuckDuckGo’s competitor said the order failed to “force the changes needed to resolve Google’s illegal behavior.”
“As a result, the consumers will continue to suffer,” said DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg.
The decision is not the end of the trial of the technological giant.
At the end of this month, it is planned to go to court in a separate case given to the Ministry of Justice, where the judge believed that the company contains illegal monopolies in Internet advertising technology.