The US ruled the “remedies” to be applied to Google in the case where the company was found guilty of monopolistic practices in the search market:
- Prohibition from entering or maintaining exclusive contracts relating to the distribution of Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, and the Gemini app
- Requirement to make certain search index and user-interaction data available to rivals and potential rivals.
- Requirement to offer search and search text ads syndication services to enable rivals and potential rivals to compete.
And that’s it.
It wasn’t much and everyone complained. Well, almost everyone: Apple and Mozilla — which receive huge payments from Google to keep its search engine as the default in iOS/Safari and Firefox, respectively — are relieved.