Google He is having a good week. Or at least not as bad as I expected. Finally, You will not have to sell Chrome After a federal judge ruled a few months ago that the company acted as a monopoly in online searches. Nor will you have to create an independent android companyas some members of the US Department of Justice wanted. But as Judge Amit Mehta has decided, he will not be able to continue signing exclusive contracts that prohibited certain third -party tools from being installed on their devices.
The company will be able to continue paying Apple and Mozilla, as well as other browse developers to pre -exist their AI and search products, as well as its Chrome browser. The court that has made the decision has recognized that prohibiting this would cause a serious damage to their income to the companies he currently pays for it, which could sometimes lead to bankruptcy or have to give up much of their activity.
In addition, Google will have to share certain data on the index of search engines and interaction with users with certain companies from their competition. Of course, you will not have to provide information about advertising. This is the great novelty of this ruling, with the objective that Google’s competition can offer high quality search results, and compete with Google while developing their own technologies and search capacity.
The court has also decided to launch a technical committee, which will work for six years, so that its members help in the implementation of its final decision. But Google had already decided to appeal the decision, whatever it was.
In a statement on this judicial decision, the company stressed that «The Court has imposed limits on the way we distribute Google’s services and will force us to share the search data with our competitors. We are concerned about the impact that these requirements will have on our users and their privacy, and we are carefully analyzing the decision. The Court acknowledged that Chrome and Android’s divestment would have gone beyond the focus of the case distribution and would have harmed consumers and our partners. As always, we continue focusing on what really matters: create innovative products that people choose and love«.
Parallel, In the European Union Google has been fought, at least for the moment, that they put another fine for breaking the current legislation in the area. According to Mlex, the commission that is in charge of deciding the sanctions on digital infractions has decided to paralyze it for now because it is concerned that a fine to the American technology for abuse of dominant position in online advertising can cause Trump’s anger and lead to impose more sanctions on the EU, or raise the tariffs that are approved for the moment.
EU officials in charge of these sanctions had planned the announcement of the sanction for monopoly to Google last Monday, but finally this announcement did not occur. The commission had even communicated on Friday to Google that the decision was made.
But at the last moment, several high -level officials of the antimonopoly team expressed concern because the announcement could anger Trump and disrupt the trade negotiations that both parties are maintaining. Trump has threatened a few days ago, in fact, with more tariffs and reprisals who wants to “regulate” American technology, in a clear allusion to the European Union.
The news of the paralysis of the sanction has not liked precisely in Europe. The German monopolies commission has described the decision as alarming precedent for the independence of the combat of monopolies in the EU, and has indicated that the protection of the competition should not be a puppet of the Trump administration, according to statements of its president, Tomaso Duso, to Reuters.
It is unknown if the paralysis of the sanction is temporary or definitiveand we will have to see what happens with the rest of the legal problems in which Google is involved, because its legal problems do not disappear, much less with this EU step, as it has just been demonstrated in the United States.
