SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered reforms to Google’s search engines in an attempt to disband the US government company and reject other attempts to impose detention while curbing the corrosive power of illegal monopolies.
The 226-page decision, made by US District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, DC, could ripple across the technological landscape as the industry is being re-changed by breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, including a conversational “answer engine” that involves companies such as ChatGpt and confusion seek to maintain their long-term status as Google’s main gateway as the main gateway of the internet.
The innovation and competition unlocked by AI has also restructured the judge’s approach to remedy. Antimonopoly Act nearly five years ago It was brought by the US Department of Justice during President Donald Trump’s first administration and advanced by President Joe Biden’s administration.
“Unlike the typical case in which the court’s job is to resolve a dispute based on historical facts, this is where the court is asked to stare at the crystal ball and look at the future.
The judge is trying to curb Google by banning some of the tactics the company has deployed to promote traffic to search engines and other services. The ruling also opens up some of some respected databases of closely guarded information about searches that provided Google with seemingly insurmountable benefits.
Handcuffs handcuffs on Google eliminate contracts that will place search engines, Gemini AI apps, Android and Virtual Assistant Play Stores exclusively on smartphones, personal computers and other devices.
But Mehta has stopped banning billions of dollar transactions that Google has been making over the years to lock search engines as the default for smartphones, personal computers and other devices. These transactions, which include payments of more than $26 billion a year, were one of the main issues that prompted the judges to conclude that Google’s search engine was an illegal monopoly, but he decided that banning them in the future would do more harm than good.
The judge also rejected the US Department of Justice’s efforts to enforce the popular Chrome browser for Google, and concluded that it was an unfair step of “incredibly troublesome and extremely dangerous.”
In part, it allows default transactions to continue, so Mehta has ordered Google to access some of the search engine’s secret sources now and their rivals. This is a measure that Google has vehemently opposed and claims it is unfair and poses privacy and security risks for billions of people who have raised questions in search engines, and delves into sometimes sensitive issues.
Justice Department anti-trust chief Gale Slater welcomed the decision as “a big victory for Americans.” “We are now weighing our options and thinking about whether orderly salvation is well underway,” Slater wrote. In a post.
in Your own postGoogle framed Mehta’s ruling as proof of its long-standing position that the case should never be brought about. The decision “gives people more ways to find information because they recognize how much the industry has changed through the advent of AI,” writes Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google’s vice president of regulatory affairs. “This highlights what we’ve been saying since the case was submitted in 2020. The competition is fierce and people can easily choose the service they want.”
Mountain View, California, company already suing the judge’s suit Exclusive survey results issued 13 months ago That led to Tuesday’s ruling.
“You’ll find someone who violated the bank and then tell him to write a thank you note to the booty,” said Nidhi Hegde, executive director of the American Economic Freedom Project.
Investors appear to have interpreted the ruling as a relatively light slap on Google’s wrist as the stock price of the company’s parent, Alphabet Inc., surged by more than 7% in extended trading. That would lead to an approximately $200 billion increase in the market value of the alphabet if they followed a similar trajectory in Wednesday’s regular trading session.
To be able to continue with default search transactions is more than just a victory for Google. It’s also a victory for Apple, which receives more than $20 billion a year from Google and other payment recipients.
in Early this year’s hearing, Apple warned the judge that banning the contract would deprive the company of it of having funnied its own innovative research. The Cupertino, California company also warned that the ban could have unintended consequences of pocketing the money spent on transactions and making Google even stronger.
Others, such as owners of Firefox web browsers, claimed that losing Google contracts would threaten future survival by robbing them of essential revenue.
Apple’s shares rose 3% in extended transactions after the ruling was announced.
Mehta declined to order Chrome sales. The sale was “not suitable for this case” because the browser determined that there was no appropriate evidence to serve as an important factor in Google’s search monopoly.
Chrome would have been a hot item if the judge had forced Google to put it in the auction block. Perplexity filed an unsolicited offer of $34.5 billion last month to buy Chrome. And in court testimony earlier this year, the ChatGpt executives were undoubtedly interested in Openai, the owner of the service, being interested in purchasing Chrome.
However, the judge decided to force Google to open up some of its search data to rivals such as Duckduckgo, Bing, and more. In doing so, Mehta still narrows the scope of the Department of Justice’s requests and limits access to Google’s search index and query history.
While the struggle over Mehta’s control continues, Google faces another potentially debilitating threat in another antitrust case brought about by the Justice Department, targeting the digital advertising empire built around search engines. After another federal judge in Virginia I declared some technologies The Justice Department will make that claim to become an illegal monopoly earlier this year, which underlies the ad network. Another proposed dissolution At the trial, scheduled to begin later this month.
