A federal judge has expanded on measures set for the Justice Department’s antitrust case against Google, ruling in favor of imposing a one-year limit on contracts that make Google’s search and AI services the default on devices. bloomberg Report. Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling on Friday means Google will have to renegotiate these contacts every year, creating a fair playing field for its competitors. The new details follow Mehta’s ruling in September that Google would not have to sell Chrome at the end of 2024, as the DOJ had proposed.
This all follows last autumn’s ruling that Google illegally maintained an Internet search monopoly through actions including paying companies like Apple to make its search engine the default on their devices and making exclusive deals around the distribution of services like Search, Chrome and Gemini. Mehta’s September ruling ended these exclusive agreements and determined that Google would have to share some of its search data with rivals to “reduce the scale disparity” created by its actions.
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