After mohs of review and a three -week court, Federal Judge Amit Mehta issued his final verdict in Google’s monopoly accusation in the online search market. The verdict, while imposing some restrictions on Google’s activities, rejected many of the key requests of the US Departme of Justice (DOJ) and is evaluated as a significa victory for the technology gia. According to the decision, Google will not have to sell its strategic assets, the Chrome browser and the Android operating system.
The main focus of the Ministry of Justice’s argume was the mandatory sale of the Chrome browser. The ministry claimed that Chrome, as an iernet access poi, gave Google a proprietary power to promote its search engine and withdraw competitors. However, in a 230 -page seence, Judge Mehta described the approach as a “weak solution” that is “extremely complex and risky”. He believed that such a move would most likely damage the quality of the user experience and endanger consumer ierests.
The ieresting thing about this vote was the role played by emerging technologies of artificial ielligence. Judge Mehta said, referring to companies such as Openai and the Per -Plexi Startup, saying that the emergence of productive artificial ielligence has changed the dynamics of competition in the search market unprecedeedly. According to him, these startups are in a position that can challenge Google’s domination better than any other traditional rival in the past decades. This analysis of the future prospects of the market was one of the main reasons for the court not to impose heavy structural punishmes, as competition is a new path.
In another part of the seence, the Ministry of Justice’s request to ban Google’s paymes to companies such as Apple and Mozilla to maiain its position as a default search engine was also rejected. The judge said the move was harmful to Google’s business partners. However, Google was not fully acquitted. The company is required to provide access to some of its search data for qualified competitors. These companies can buy a “insta image” of these data to enhance their ability to ideify and crawl web pages and enhance their search services. This is a step towards enhancing transparency and helping smaller competitors.
Source: The Verge
