""Mehta, who found that Google has monopolized search and search advertising, is crafting a remedy to resolve the company's illegal conduct. In a decision last month, he ruled that Google could no longer pay companies to exclusively use its Search, Chrome web browser or Google Play Store, though he declined to bar all payments outright. Mehta's ruling incorporated aspects of proposals from Google and the Justice Department, which led to Wednesday's hearing where both sides argued for him to adopt their language in a final order.""
""During the trial, witnesses testified that Google offers an "all-or-nothing" bundle to device manufactures, effectively requiring they preload nearly a dozen of Google's apps if they want access to the the Play Store, the largest app store on Google's Android operating system. That requirement, for example, forced Microsoft Corp. to feature Google search on its Surface Duo touchscreen device instead of its own search engine, Bing.""
""There's no notion that Google has to date gained monopoly or market power" in the artificial intelligence market, Google lawyer John Schmidtlein told Judge Amit Mehta. Likewise, "there's been no finding that Maps is a monopoly product or that YouTube is a monopoly product.""
Judge Amit Mehta, having found Google monopolized search and search advertising, is crafting a remedy and recently limited exclusive payments tied to Search, Chrome and the Play Store. During trial, witnesses said Google used an "all-or-nothing" bundle that effectively required device makers to preload nearly a dozen Google apps to access the Play Store, a practice that affected partners like Microsoft. The Justice Department wants prohibitions applied to Google’s Gemini AI as well, while Google contends it has not gained monopoly power in AI and that Maps and YouTube are not monopoly products.
Read at Yahoo Finance
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]