Google: Google gets big relief from US court, now it will not have to sell Chrome browser; Order to share data..

The US court has given a big relief to tech giant Google. The federal judge rejected the US government's appeal, saying that Google does not need to sell the Chrome search engine. However, the court ordered Google to share data with rivals to promote competition in online search.

US District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C., delivered the verdict in the ongoing case between the US Justice Department and Google. Earlier, Google CEO Sundar Pichai expressed concern during the hearing of the case in April 2025 that the data-sharing measures sought by the US Justice Department could enable Google's rivals to reverse-engineer its technology. Google had earlier said it plans to file an appeal.

The court's decision comes at a time when the influence of AI is increasing in the tech sector. Companies like ChatGPT and Perplexity are trying to end Google's long-standing position in online search. US Judge Mehta imposed new restrictions on Google over the strategies it adopted to increase traffic to its search engine and other services.

He also refrained from stopping the billion-dollar deals that Google has been making for years to lock its search engine by default on smartphones, personal computers, and other devices. Judge Mehta ordered Google to give its current and future competitors access to some sources of its search engine.

Cases against Google - Online Advertising and Search Monopoly
Online Advertising Monopoly Case - The US Justice Department had alleged that Google adopted anti-competitive methods to monopolize the digital advertising technology market. In April, Judge Leonie Brinkema said in her decision that Google "intentionally took such actions" that it established complete control in the "open web display publisher ad server market". Now that the conviction has been established, the Justice Department will demand that the court force Google has to sell some of its ad tech services. Google had announced to appeal against this decision.

Search Engine Monopoly Case - This case is related to Google's strategy to maintain its hold in the search engine market. It is alleged that Google paid billions of dollars to companies like Apple to ensure that Google remained the default search engine on devices like the iPhone. In August 2024, a federal judge admitted that Google had maintained a monopoly through unfair means.

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