"Google will not be required to divest Chrome; nor will the court include a contingent divestiture of the Android operating system in the final judgment,"
"Plaintiffs overreached in seeking forced divestiture of these key assets, which Google did not use to effect any illegal restraints."
"If you think of ingredients as data, like users' search index, recipes are what they do with that data and how they use that data to make search results more relevant,"
"You only have to share their ingredient list, effectively their search and search index."
US District Judge Amit Mehta affirmed that Google violated U.S. competition law while rejecting remedies that would force divestiture of Chrome or Android. The court determined those assets were not used to implement illegal restraints and allowed Google to keep default-placement arrangements, including payments to partners. The judgment requires Google to share certain user-side data, such as a search index and user-interaction data, with qualified competitors but exempts proprietary advertising data and internal algorithms. The ruling bars future exclusive default search deals on mobile devices and imposes six years of oversight by a technical committee to monitor compliance.
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