A US federal court has ruled that Google must share information with rivals, but will not be required to sell its Chrome web browser. Following years of litigation about Google’s hegemony in internet searches, District Judge Amit Mehta’s remedies have been made public. The lawsuit focused on Google’s role as the default search engine for a number of its own products, including Chrome and Android, as well as those manufactured by companies like Apple.
Google can keep Chrome, but it will not be allowed to have exclusive contracts and will have to share search data with competitors, according to Tuesday’s ruling, which reaffirmed the US Department of Justice’s demand that the tech giant sell Chrome.
Google had suggested less extreme remedies, such as restricting its revenue-sharing contracts with companies like Apple so that its search engine would be the default on their hardware and web browsers.
The business stated on Tuesday that it considered the decision a win and that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) most likely had a role in the result. Google stated in a statement following the finding that “today’s decision recognizes how much the industry has changed through the advent of AI, which is giving people so many more ways to find information. This reinforces what we’ve been saying when this case was filed in 2020: Choice is intense and people can easily choose the services they want,” said the statement.
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