Washington (dpa-AFX)-The US government failed before a court in Washington with the demand for a destruction of Google (Alphabet C (Ex Google)). Judge Amit Mehta decided that the internet giant should not be forced to separate from the Chrome web browser and the Android mobile operating system. The government went too far with its demands, he wrote.
At the same time, the judge Google in his 230-page judgment prohibited exclusive agreements for the distribution of his services such as the web search, Chrome or the AI software Gemini.
However, the group becomes other companies such as Apple or the Firefox-Developer Mozilla in principle can still pay for you to pre -install his services.
According to information from the process, Apple received billions in that Google search on iPhones was preinstalled as the standard. For Mozilla, the pre-installation of the Google search in Firefox is a central source of income. In the EU, users are now expressly asked which search engine they want to use. The judge rejected such a selection compulsory for the United States.
Google will also have to share some data from its search engine with competitors.
Stock increases
On the stock exchange, the judgment was seen as a success for Google: The share of the parent company Alphabet (Alphabet A (Ex Google)) temporarily rose by seven percent in post -excessive trading. The Apple paper also went up three percent.
A year ago, the court found that Google had a monopoly in the web search – and defended it with unfair means against competition. The consequences in Washington now dealt with the consequences from Monday.
Google spoke in advance of a calling
The decision could only be an intermediate step: Google has already announced that it would appeal afterwards. However, the Internet group first had to wait for the decision on the consequences in order to also be able to contest the judgment from the monopoly process./So/DP/NAS
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