After a tense few months for the tech giant, federal judge Amit Mehta ruled yesterday that Google will not be required to sell its Chrome browser after being ruled as a monopoly last year.
The tech giant has spent years battling legal accusations that the company violated antitrust laws. Originally, prosecutors requested that Google sell off its core search product and ban it from entering the browser market for five years. In Mehta’s more lenient 230-page ruling, Google was instead barred from entering or maintaining exclusive contracts relating to the distribution of its core products: Chrome, Google Assistant, and the Gemini app.
This decision left detractors far from happy, including the non-profit advocacy group, the American Economic Liberties project, calling the ruling a “complete failure”.
