Court reaches verdict for Google: It will not sell Chrome
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has issued its ruling regarding the U.S. Department of Justice's request to force Google to sell Chrome.
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The ruling stated that the company will not be forced to divest Chrome, and that the court will not include the conditional divestiture of the Android operating system in its final decision.
The ruling, which noted that Google did not use these assets to implement any illegal restrictions, stated that the plaintiffs "went too far" in requesting the forced divestiture of these assets.
The decision indicated that the company is not required to stop payments made to distribution partners for the pre-installation or placement of certain applications on devices.
The ruling, which mandates that the company share certain search index and user interaction data with qualified competitors, noted that this would promote competition.
ANTITRUST LAWSUIT
In a statement released by the U.S. Department of Justice on January 24, 2023, it was announced that an "antitrust" lawsuit had been filed against Google in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, alongside the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia.
The statement, which alleged that the company monopolized numerous digital advertising technology products, claimed that Google used anti-competitive, exclusionary, and illegal methods to eliminate or significantly reduce any threats to its dominance in the sector.
The statement explained that over the past 15 years, Google had neutralized or eliminated competitors in advertising technology through acquisitions, and noted that the company used its dominance in the digital advertising market to force more publishers and advertisers to use its products while preventing the use of competing products.