Google does not have to sell Chrome, the judge in the rules of the Monopoly case

Google will not have to strip its Chrome browser, but it will have to change some of its commercial practices, as a federal judge ruled. This ruling comes more than a year after the judge’s ruling that Google Illegally To keep a monopoly on online search.

After the ruling last year, it was the Ministry of Justice Proposal Google should be forced to sell Chrome. But in Decision 230 pagesJudge Amit Mihat said that the government “exceeded” its request. “Google will not be required to strip the chrome, and the court will not include stripping of the Android operating system in the final ruling,” Mihata wrote. “Prosecutors have exceeded the search for forced abstraction of these main assets, which Google did not use to influence any illegal restrictions.”

However, Google is no longer allowed to make exclusive deals about the search distribution, Google, Gemini, or Chrome. For example, Google cannot claim device makers to download their pre -apps in order to access the Play Store. Also, it cannot clarify the revenue sharing arrangements for setting their applications. But Google will be able to continue to push Apple-like partners to search in advance and other applications in their products. Mihata said that ending these arrangements can cause “damage in the direction of the river course of distribution partners, relevant markets and consumers.”

Mehta also ruled that Google will need to share some search data with host competitors. “Providing data for competitors would narrow the scale gap established by the exclusive distribution agreements of Google, and thus the quality gap that followed it,” he wrote. The company is not required to deliver data related to its ads.

Mihata’s rule is to a large victory over the research giant, which has argued that stripping chrome or Android “will harm the Americans and lead the American global technology.” in statement On Tuesday, Google said it has “concerns” about some aspects of the ruling.

“Today’s decision is aware of the change of industry through the emergence of artificial intelligence, which gives people many ways to find information,” the company said. “The court has now imposed restrictions on how to distribute Google services, and you will ask us to share search data with competitors. We have concerns about how these requirements affect our users and their privacy, and we review the decision closely.”

The company previously referred to its plans To appeal Mihata’s original decision, but he said in June that he is awaiting a final decision in the case.

Update, 2 September, 2025, 4:28 pm pt: This post has been updated to add a statement from Google to the verdict.