Google will not have to sell the Chrome browser after all (but there is hunting)

A federal judge ruled in a prominent anti -monopoly case against Google on Tuesday with some good news and bad news of the technology giant. Google’s good news is that he will not have to sell its Chrome browser, which was a very real possibility. Google shares rose after the news hours.

The bad news for Google was that it would be required to share data with its competitors and cannot sign many exclusive contracts that helped the company become dominant in this industry.

Judgment available CourtHe comes from the judge Amit B. Mihata from the American boycott court for the province of Colombia, which was first sentenced August 2024 Google research was an illegal monopoly.

“Google will not be required to strip Chrome; the court will not include an urgent abstraction of the Android operating system in the final ruling,” the ruler says. “Prosecutors have exceeded the search for forced abstraction of these main assets, which Google did not use to influence any illegal restrictions.”

The Chrome browser has about 3.5 billion users, which is very impressive when you remember that there are only about 8.1 billion people on the entire planet. The artificial intelligence company baffled at a confusion of unwanted offers by Chrome last monthAlthough he was considered a trick by many technology industry monitors. The confusion was offered 34.5 billion dollars, but it was only estimated at about $ 18 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.

On Tuesday, the ruling indicated that Google will need to share the “search index and user use data, despite the lack of advertising data”, with “qualified competitors”. The ruling also says that the company “will prevent from entering or maintaining any exclusive contract related to the distribution of Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant and Gemini, although there is a lot of copper that will allow Google to enter contracts in order not to damage the course of the river.

Google will also not also be required to provide “selection screens on their products or encourage Android distribution partners to do the same,” according to the referee. You will not have to ensure the public education campaign at the country level. The United States government provided many treatments after it turned out that Google was monopolizing, but the judge considered some demands “inappropriate”.

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday evening. Gizmodo will update this article if we hear. But the technology giant previously said that he is planning to appeal the ruling that he is working on illegal monopoly.

It seems very likely to participate in the Google parent company, in pressing the Trump administration behind the scenes. President Trump has not hidden the fact that he met regularly with strong people in the business world, whether he was behind closed doors as he did with the BU-Tan CEO of Intel or publicly as he did with the CEO of Apple Tim Cook.

Trump was publicly launched, but he met with President Intel and took the US government a 10 % share In the company. The move was shocked by many at Wall Street, even among people who support the president. But it seems that Trump is more than one who wants to interfere in private companies when it is believed that it is in his interest. Will Trump run Google in some way? It does not need cash injection like Intel. But there is always something to trade when strong interests need service.

This is a developing story and will be updated.