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Google can't have exclusive search deals — but won't have to divest Chrome or Android, judge rules in antitrust case

A federal judge has handed down his punishment against Google after ruling that the tech company's online search business is a monopoly. US District Judge Amit Mehta, in a 230-page ruling on Tuesday, barred Google from having exclusive contracts for its Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, and Gemini app products as part of his remedy to the more than $2 trillion company's monopoly in search.But the ruling fell short of some of the most contentious demands from the US government. Mehta said Google woul ...