Judge spares Google from Chrome or Android breakup, orders data sharing with rivals and end to exclusive agreements
Judge spares Google from Chrome or Android breakup, orders data sharing with rivals and end to exclusive agreements
Department of Justice Wins Significant Remedies Against Google
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36778872
Today, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division won significant remedies in its monopolization case against Google in online search. In United States et al. v. Google, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia prohibited Google from entering or maintaining exclusive contracts relating to the distribution of Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, and the Gemini app; ordered Google to make certain search index and user-interaction data available to rivals and potential rivals; and ordered Google to offer search and search text ads syndication services to enable rivals and potential rivals to compete.
The court’s ruling today recognizes the need for remedies that will pry open the market for general search services, which has been frozen in place for over a decade. The ruling also recognizes the need to prevent Google from using the same anticompetitive tactics for its GenAI products as it used to monopolize the search market, and the remedies will reach GenAI technologies and companies.
Fucken boo
We need an open standard browser that isnt owned by monied interests.
Servo Browser Engine.
That will be very exciting when it actually exists
Hopefully one day it will be
We avoided the worst outcome, they were considering killing Firefox to prevent a Google internet monopoly.
What. Idk how that makes sense but I guess I am glad that didn't happen. Still frustrated with this outcome tho.