"There are strong reasons not to jolt the system and to allow market forces to do the work, Mehta wrote. Google will not be barred from making payments or offering other consideration to distribution partners for preloading or placement of Google Search, Chrome, or its GenAI products. Cutting off payments from Google almost certainly will impose substantial-in some cases, crippling-downstream harms to distribution partners, related markets, and consumers, which counsels against a broad payment ban."
"Google will have to make available to Qualified Competitors certain search index and user-interaction data, though not ads data, as such sharing will deny Google the fruits of its exclusionary acts and promote competition. The court, however, has narrowed the datasets Google will be required to share to tailor the remedy to its anticompetitive conduct. The Judge added, "Google shall offer Qualified Competitors search and search text ads syndication services to enable those firms to deliver high-quality search results a"
Google will not be broken up and will retain Chrome, Android, and its advertising business. The court declined to order divestiture of Chrome or a contingent divestiture of Android, finding those assets were not used to effect illegal restraints. Google will be barred from making exclusive search deals and required to share certain search index and user-interaction data with Qualified Competitors, but not ads data. The court narrowed which datasets must be shared to tailor the remedy to anticompetitive conduct. Google must offer search and search-text ads syndication services. The court refused a broad ban on payments to distribution partners, citing downstream harms.
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