Google Won’t Have to Sell Chrome Browser After All (But There’s a Catch)

A federal judge ruled in a prominent anti -monopoly case against Google on Tuesday with some good news and bad news of the technology giant. Google’s good news is that he will not have to sell its Chrome browser, which was a very real possibility. Google shares rose after the news hours.

The bad news for Google was that it would be required to share data with its competitors and cannot sign many exclusive contracts that helped the company become dominant in this industry.

The ruling, which is available to the court’s listener, comes from Judge Amit B. Mihata of the US boycott court for the Colombia Province, which first ruled in August 2024 that Google’s search was an illegal monopoly.

“Google will not be required to strip Chrome; the court will not include an urgent abstraction of the Android operating system in the final ruling,” the ruler says. “Prosecutors have exceeded the search for forced abstraction of these main assets, which Google did not use to influence any illegal restrictions.”

The Chrome browser has about 3.5 billion users, which is very impressive when you remember that there are only about 8.1 billion people on the entire planet. The artificial intelligence company in a state of artificial intelligence made an unwanted offer by Chrome last month, although it was considered a trick by many technology industry monitors. The confusion was offered 34.5 billion dollars, but it was only estimated at about $ 18 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.

On Tuesday, the ruling indicated that Google will need to share the “search index and user use data, despite the lack of advertising data”, with “qualified competitors”. The ruling also says that the company “will prevent from entering or maintaining any exclusive contract related to the distribution of Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant and Gemini, although there is a lot of copper that will allow Google to enter contracts in order not to damage the course of the river.

Google will also not also be required to provide “selection screens on their products or encourage Android distribution partners to do the same,” according to the referee. You will not have to ensure the public education campaign at the country level. The United States government provided many treatments after it turned out that Google was monopolizing, but the judge considered some demands “inappropriate”.

A comment was reached by e -mail, a Google spokesman directed Gizmodo to a statement published on the Internet:

One of Google’s competitors was at least dissatisfied with the ruling because he was very lenient on the technology company. “We do not believe that the treatments requested by the court will force the necessary changes to address Google’s illegal behavior adequately,” Duckduckgo spokesman told Gizmodo in an email on Tuesday.

“Google will allow continued use of monopoly to competitors, including in researching artificial intelligence,” the spokesman continued. “As a result, consumers will continue to suffer. We believe that congress should intervene now to make Google quickly do what he fears: competition for a level stadium.”

It seems very likely to engage Google in some pressure on the Trump administration behind the scenes as this case is resumed. President Trump has not hidden the fact that he met regularly with strong people in the business world, whether he was behind closed doors as he did with the BU-Tan CEO of Intel or publicly as he did with the CEO of Apple Tim Cook.

Trump publicly criticized Book, but then met with President Intel, which led to a 10 % stake in the company. The move was shocked by many at Wall Street, even among people who support the president. But it seems that Trump is more than one who wants to interfere in private companies when it is believed that it is in his interest.

Will Trump run Google in some way? The technology giant does not need cash injection like Intel. But there is always something to trade when strong interests need service. Google contributed a million dollars in the Trump’s opening box, and the CEO of Google Sundar Pichai visited Trump in Mar-A-Lago after a long period of elections.

Pichai was monitored even at the service of the church on January 20, 2025 before the opening of Trump, there is behind the CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook and the founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos.

It should be interesting to see what is happening because Google appeals to this.