Google will have to share data with competitors in the online search industry, a federal district judge ruled Sept. 2.
At the same time, Washington-based U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta rejected prosecutors’ request that Google be compelled to sell off its Chrome browser.
The judge ruled last year that Google was “a monopolist” and had violated Section 2 of the federal Sherman Act.
Its business activities “effectively ‘froze’ the search ecosystem, resulting in markets in which Google has ‘no true competitor,” Mehta said in his new 226-page opinion in the consolidated cases of United States v. Google LLC and State of Colorado v. Google LLC….