Google avoids separation, but you should give up exclusive search deals in the anti -monopoly experience

Google will not have to dismantle the research work, but the federal judge has initially ordered other changes in technology giant coins to prevent them from further anti -competition behavior.

The American boycott judge identified Amit B. Machatta is the means of recession on Tuesday would prevent Google from entering or maintaining exclusive deals linking the distribution of research, chrome, Google assistant or Gemini to other applications or revenue arrangements. For example, Google will not be able to make a store license to distribute some applications, or equivalent to revenue sharing payments to keep some applications.

Google will also have to share the search index and user data with “qualified competitors” to prevent exclusion behavior, and Search and Search Syndication must provide competitors at record rates so that they can provide high -quality results while building their technology.

Mihata has not yet issued a final judgment. Instead, Google and the Ministry of Justice ordered “Talbiyah and Forms” and to present a final revised judgment by September 10 that corresponds to his opinion.

Behavioral treatments come after a year Mehta ruled that Google acted illegally To keep a monopoly on online search. A technical committee will be established to help enforce the final ruling, which will continue in the six years and enter into force after 60 days of entry.

The Ministry of Justice, which was presented to it Anti -monopoly suit against Google in 2020And he called for stronger penalties. Google wanted to strip the Chrome browser and perhaps Android, which led to some Unwanted acquisition bidsAnd ending its agreements with Apple, Samsung and other partners who have pushed the technology giant those billions to make their search engine appear as a virtual option on their devices and their web browsers.

Apple shares have emerged hours after news that they could continue to agree with Google. Google spent more than 26 billion dollars in 2021 alone to secure virtual search for devices, and about 18 billion dollars This spending only went to the Apple, which shares Google 36 % of Safari search ads revenue. The following year, Google Apple paid more than a dollar20 billionAccording to the conditions of the distribution agreement.

During the trial, the judge stressed that since most users are committed to virtual, these places are “very valuable real estate” that effectively closed competitors and their ability to challenge Google’s monopoly.

The Ministry of Justice also called on Judge Mihata to force Google to share the search index, user side data, artificial information, and advertising data with competitors under privacy requirements.

Google, which has maintained a market share of approximately 90 % during the traditional research market during the past decade, has argued that the government’s proposals will suffocate innovation, endanger the user’s privacy, and reduce the company’s ability to invest in research and development. The CEO of Sundar Pichai said during the treatment hearing in April that the participation of forced data will work as “De getting ridTo search Google.

During the treatment hearing in April, Judge Mehta suggested that he considers that digital markets in Europe are a reference point. DMA Google requires sharing a specific click data and inquiries with third parties. On the contrary, the matter of Mihata is narrower and temporary, unlike the continuous DMA obligations. It is also much more limited than accessing the required compounding doj, which is likely to include the source code, full search algorithms, and broader infrastructure elements, which Google said will completely abandon its intellectual property.

“This has inspired a major debate about whether Europeans who have a digital market law have,” Kovacic said. “This is, do you need descriptive rules, or do you depend on the technical status according to the ruling?”

In other words: “Does the European experience tell us something about the feasibility and implementation here. Do you tell us something about what we can live with Google?”

This same question about the extent to which the organizers should go on reshaping Google’s business as well, it will also surface on the horizon in the battles of other monopoly of technology giant.

Judge Mihata’s decision may also affect the outcome of a separate experience to combat monopoly in which Google is currently involved in its work in advertising technology. In April 2025, Judge Leoni Bernaki found that Google illegally advertising technology markets. The experience of treatments is scheduled to be determined in late September and will focus on the disposal of the proposed Ministry of Justice and other measures.

“We had no circumstances that the Ministry of Justice had no parallel issues largely for major elements of alleged misconduct against the same dominant company with two parallel treatment operations,” said William Kovacic, a global competition professor at George Washington University and the former Federal Trade Commission Commissioner.

Kovacic added that although Mihita issued his long -awaited treatments, “There are many actions to this play to go” in the form of Google’s appeal and a possible escalation to the Supreme Court. “It will not end until late 2027 or early 2028,” he said.

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