Judge Stops Short of Making Google Sell Chrome, Forces It to Share Search Data With Competitors

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/09/02/judge-stops-short-of-making-google-sell-chrome-forces-it-to-share-search-data-with-competitors/In a landmark decision in a landmark antitrust case, a federal judge in DC has ruled that in order to make restitution for its longstanding monopoly over internet search, Google will have to share some of its data and its search results to several qualified competitors. As the New York Times reports, Judge Amit P. Mehta of the US District Court for the District of Columbia finally issued a decision on remedy in the antitrust case which has been one of several to have roiled Silicon Valley in recent years. And Judge Mehta stopped short of forcing Google/Alphabet to break itself up or sell off its Chrome web browser or Android ope