Google does not have to sell Chrome, the judge in the rules of the Monopoly case

Google will not have to strip its Chrome browser, but it will have to change some of its commercial practices, as a federal judge ruled. This ruling comes more than a year after the judge’s ruling that Google Illegally To keep a monopoly on online search.

After the ruling last year, it was the Ministry of Justice Proposal Google should be forced to sell Chrome. But in Decision 230 pagesJudge Amit Mihat said that the government “exceeded” its request. “Google will not be required to strip the chrome, and the court will not include stripping of the Android operating system in the final ruling,” Mihata wrote. “Prosecutors have exceeded the search for forced abstraction of these main assets, which Google did not use to influence any illegal restrictions.”

However, Google is no longer allowed to make exclusive deals about the search distribution, Google, Gemini, or Chrome. For example, Google cannot ask for device makers to download their apps in advance to access the Play Store. Also, it cannot clarify the revenue sharing arrangements for setting their applications. But Google will be able to continue to push Apple-like partners to search in advance and other applications in their products. Mihata said that ending these arrangements can cause “damage in the direction of the river course of distribution partners, relevant markets and consumers.”

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The company previously indicated its plans To appeal The ruling, but he said in June that he is waiting for the court’s opinion.

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