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Google gets to keep Chrome but is barred from exclusive search deals, judge rules
CNBC ^ | 9/2/25 | Jennifer Elias

Posted on 09/02/2025 1:39:58 PM PDT by CFW

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts and must share search data.

Alphabet shares popped 6% in extended trading.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled against the most severe consequences that were proposed by the U.S. Department of Justice, including selling off its Chrome browser, which provides data that helps its advertising business deliver targeted ads.

“Google will not be required to divest Chrome; nor will the court include a contingent divestiture of the Android operating system in the final judgment,” the decision states. “Plaintiffs overreached in seeking forced divesture of these key assets, which Google did not use to effect any illegal restraints.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amitmehta; anotherforeignstooge; business; chrome; courts; dcdistrict; google; goolag; h1bjudge; h1bstooge; jenniferelias; judgewatch; obamastooge; stoogewatch
Interesting ruling on Chrome and Google.
1 posted on 09/02/2025 1:39:58 PM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

The folks at Google are too smart and too successful for their own good.


2 posted on 09/02/2025 1:42:27 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: CFW

Google is Alphabet, Alphabet is information collection and information control for the NWO government. Alphabet is owned by BlackRock. The NWO owns the global courts.


3 posted on 09/02/2025 1:53:46 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: CFW

The Google search and other monopoly’s has set technological advancement back 10 years. It is something that cant be accurately measured, unfortunately. It is a great relief that AI is coming out in a competitive way.


4 posted on 09/02/2025 1:56:55 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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From Wikipedia:
Mehta was born in 1971 in Patan, Gujarat, India.[4] At the age of one, Mehta moved with his parents, Priyavadan and Ragini Mehta, to the United States.[5] His mother worked as a laboratory technician, while his father worked as an engineer.[6] Mehta was raised in Reisterstown, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore.

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Enough with these foreign born federal judges, eh. We’ve learned our lesson — change the law that allows these anti-American freaks to rule the roost.


5 posted on 09/02/2025 1:57:46 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: CFW

Google search is a joke nowadays. Many times I do a search and get nothing with what I was looking for.


6 posted on 09/02/2025 2:42:38 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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I can’t make up my mind who I hate most - Alphabet/Google or “antitrust” lawsuits - both a plague on us.


7 posted on 09/02/2025 3:05:46 PM PDT by Wuli (uire)
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Google needs to divest Android.


8 posted on 09/02/2025 3:16:28 PM PDT by kaktuskid
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“I can’t make up my mind who I hate most - Alphabet/Google or “antitrust” lawsuits - both a plague on us.”


Agreed. It’s a toss-up.


9 posted on 09/02/2025 3:21:43 PM PDT by CFW
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Google up 15. AAPL up 7


10 posted on 09/02/2025 3:29:54 PM PDT by RummyChick ( )
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