Court Allows Google-Apple Search Deal to Continue With Conditions

Google volition not beryllium barred from entering into hunt agreements with companies similar Apple, the justice presiding implicit the antitrust lawsuit betwixt Google and the U.S. Department of Justice said contiguous (via Bloomberg).


Google is not allowed to participate into exclusive contracts for hunt motor distribution, but it is inactive allowed to wage to Apple to beryllium a hunt motor enactment connected iPhone. Apple earns astir $20 cardinal annually from Google, and determination was a hazard that the 2 companies could beryllium banned from entering into hunt motor agreements.

"Cutting disconnected payments from Google astir surely volition enforce important -- successful immoderate cases, crippling -- downstream harms to organisation partners, related markets, and consumers, which counsels against a wide outgo ban," said the judge.

Google is specifically allowed to marque payments and connection "other consideration" to organisation partners for the preloading oregon placement of Google Search, Chrome, and Gemini.

Google volition not person to merchantability its Chrome browser, oregon the Android operating system. The justice said that the authorities "overreached successful seeking the forced divestiture" of the assets.

Besides being barred from entering into exclusive hunt motor organisation contracts, Google volition besides request to stock information with rival hunt engines. The DOJ had asked that Google beryllium forced to supply information connected however it decides what to aboveground based connected a fixed search.

Google was recovered to person a hunt monopoly back successful August of 2024, and the tribunal has been deciding what enactment to instrumentality to interruption up Google's monopoly since then. The DOJ was pushing for the divestiture of Chrome and the imaginable divestiture of Android.

Google is appealing the ruling, apt owed to the information sharing component.
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