US judge orders Google to share search data with competitors

A judge in Washington has ordered Alphabet’s Google to share information with rivals in order to promote online competition.

The court’s request to force the internet giant to sell its well-known Chrome browser is also rejected by the decision made on Tuesday.

Sundar Pichai, the head of Google, was accused at a trial in April of worrying that the US Department of Justice’s request for data-sharing measures might allow Google’s rivals to reverse-engineer its technology.

It may take years before Google is required to take legal action in response to US District Judge Amit Mehta’s decision because it has previously stated that it intends to appeal.

Additionally, Mehta has forbid Google from entering exclusive agreements that would prevent manufacturers from installing rival products on new devices.

Google claimed that the only appropriate course of action was to loosen its agreements with device manufacturers, browser developers, and mobile network operators. According to the documents presented at trial, Samsung Electronics, Motorola, and wireless providers AT&amp, T and Verizon can now load rival search offerings, according to its most recent agreements with device makers.

One of the world’s most successful businesses and its parent country, the US, were involved in the decision, which came after Mehta declared last year that it had an illegal monopoly on online search and related advertising, for five years.

Prosecutors argued in the trial in April for drastic measures to reinvigorate competition and stop Google from limiting its search dominance to artificial intelligence.

Google claimed that the proposals would give away its technology to rivals because they went far beyond what was legally necessary.

Google is suing over its dominance in other markets in addition to the search controversy.

In a lawsuit brought by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games, the company recently announced it would continue to fight a ruling that would require it to overhaul its app store.

In a separate case brought by the Justice Department, where a judge determined that Google holds illegal monopolies in online advertising technology, the company is scheduled to go on trial in September to determine remedies.

The Justice Department’s two cases against Google are just one more example of the US’s wider, bipartisan crackdown on big tech companies, which included those brought on by Amazon and Apple during President Donald Trump’s first term.