The business revolves around Google’s power in the search market. The company pays billions to parties like Apple to make its search engine the standard on smartphones and in browsers. For example, competitors such as Bing or Duckduckgo get almost no chance. Last year the court already found that Google has built up an illegal monopoly. The current ruling is about what measures must be taken against this.
iPhone
The judge opts for a middle ground. Google must share search data with competitors and may no longer conclude exclusive contracts, but may continue to pay partners to remain the standard search engine. That is good news for Apple. The iPhone maker continues to extend an estimated $ 20 billion a year for setting Google as a standard option for searches.
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Investors respond relieved. The share of Alphabet, parent company of Google, wins 6 percent before the opening of Wall Street. Apple also wins almost 3 percent.
Compulsory sharing of data
Google says he is happy that Chrome and Android are left out. “The compulsory selling of Chrome and Android would have damaged consumers and partners,” said the TechReus in a response. Google is worried about the compulsory sharing of data: that could have consequences for the privacy of users.
Split -off Google threatens after pronunciation of power abuse of advertising market
This statement seems to put an end to speculation about a possible sale of Chrome. AI-start-up Perplexity made an unsolicited bid of 34.5 billion dollars on the browser last month, shortly after OpenAi had also shown interest.
With this, the battle around Google is not over yet. The company is under fire on several fronts. In April another judge ruled that Google abuses his power on the advertising market, the largest source of income in the company. There it is still being investigated whether a split is required, for example by repeling parts of the advertising company.