Google does not have to sell chromir, judge in the monopoly rules of the case

Google will not have to release his Chrome browser, but he will have to change some of his business practices, the Federal Judge ruled. The verdict comes more than a year after the same judge ruled that Google had acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in Internet search.

After the judgment last year, the justice department had proposed That Google should be forced to sell Chrome. But in a 230 pages decisionThe fall of Jedija Amit Mehta said the government “overreacting” in its request. “Google will not be required to give up chromir; nor will the court include contingent adjustment of the Android operating system in the final judgment,” Mehta wrote. “Prosecutors have exaggerated to look for forced petting these key assets, which did not use Google to achieve illegal restrictions.”

However, Google will, however, will allow exclusive offers about search distribution, Google Assistant, Gemini or Chrome, Mehta ruled. For example, Google cannot require devices manufacturers to previously burden their applications to get access to the Play store. It is also not a condition of sharing revenues for dividing her applications. But Google will be able to continue to pay partners – such as Apple – to transfer searches and other applications in their products. Mehta said that the completion of these arrangements could cause “downstream damage to distribution partners, related markets and consumers.”

Google has not replied immediately upon request for comment. The company has previously indicated plans to complain The decision, but in June in June, she waited for the opinion of the Court.

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