By Eva Dou, washingtonpost.com, 9-2-25
A federal judge Sept. 2 ordered Google to halt its multibillion-dollar exclusivity contracts to promote its search engine and to share some data with competitors to resolve a high-profile monopoly case, but he rejected the Justice Department’s request to break up the company.
The ruling means Google has averted its worst-case scenario of a breakup. While the company can still make payments to device manufacturers to preload Google Search, Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said Tuesday the company can no longer require exclusivity. » Read More