Judge Blocks Google's Exclusive Search Deals
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Google was spared the worst possible judgment in its landmark antitrust case Tuesday: A judge allowed it to keep Chrome and Android under its fold and continue to pay tech companies to promote its search engine.
A federal judge ordered Google to hand over its search results and data to rival companies in a landmark antitrust case Tuesday.
Judge Amit P. Mehta said the company must hand over some of its search data to rivals, but did not force other big changes the U.S. wanted.
Google doesn't have to sell its wildly popular Chrome web browser, but it can't engage in exclusive search deals, US District Judge Amit Mehta ruled on Tuesday. Google must share limited search data and user-interaction data with "qualified competitors," but the company doesn't have to share its most valuable ads data.
The U.S. tech giant doesn’t have to divest but is barred from exclusive search engine contracts and must share some of its user data with competitors.
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