Google has gained relief after a federal judge ruled that it may keep Chrome and Android but must share data with rival 0 decision follows a five-year antitrust legal battle that targeted Big Tech’s market 1 Judge Amit Mehta said that Google’s control of online search is an illegal monopoly, but concluded that breaking up the company’s core business would be a poor fit for the 2 instead ordered Alphabet to give access to specific search data, except for exclusive contracts that secure Google’s default status on 3 to appeal Judge Mehta’s declaration of data sharing Judge Mehta’s ruling means that competitors such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity, which are currently developing AI search engines, may benefit from insights into Google’s market 4 experts have warned that alternatives to Alphabet’s search engine may face capital-intensive investments to match Alphabet’s search engine status, with no guarantee of winning over 5 – court rules Google must share data with 6 like they'll be forced to share: 1) Basic Search Index: URLs/first seen/last crawled/spam score/etc. 2) "Glue": uses click data to build SERPs 3) RankEmbed: deep learning to understand semantic meaning Bing,… 7 — Cyrus SEO (@CyrusShepard) September 2, 2025 The 8 Judge noted that the emergence of GenAI has changed the course of the case, with millions of people already turning to generative AI tools like ChatGPT and 9 commented that consumers use GenAI to gather information once sought via traditional 10 added that AI companies pose a big challenge for Google, which has dominated the market for over two decades 11 argued that the ruling risks undermining user privacy, with CEO Sundar Pichai warning that competitors may reverse engineer Google’s 12 search engine firm acknowledged that the decision reflects that competition has grown and people can easily choose the service they 13 also confirmed that it will appeal against the ruling, a process that may delay the implementation of the rule for 14 15 of Justice had previously supported the breakup of Chrome and Android, but the requests were 16 Attorney General Abigail Slater revealed that officials were weighing options and considering whether the implications go far enough to address Google’s 17 company DuckDuckGo called the order insufficient to force the necessary changes and warned that consumers will continue to suffer.
Alphabet’s stock jumps over 6% after the court ruling The ruling further allows Google to keep distribution agreements, such as paying Apple to keep its products on 18 device manufacturers, such as Samsung and Motorola, that use the Android OS, stand to benefit 19 order allows them to pre-install or promote other search engines, browsers, or AI assistants alongside Google products, while the search engine can continue to pay the default placement fee. Alphabet’s stock jumped 6.89%, trading at $226.60 in the premarket 20 stock has maintained zero change in the open market, trading at $211.99. The company stock has also maintained a positive YTD of approximately 11%, with a year range of $142.66 – $215.34.
Apple stock jumped 3.3% in the premarket session, trading at $237.34. It has also maintained zero change today, trading at $229.72. The iOS developer stock has experienced a negative YTD of 8.27%, with a year range of $169.21 – $260.10. Challenges are attributed mainly to the Trump tariffs, which affected the company’s global supply 21 Android OS owner still faces multiple lawsuits over its advertising business and App Store practices, as the 22 the EU have increased scrutiny of Big Tech’s 23 reported last week that Google is expected to face an EU antitrust fine over its adtech 24 case involves an alleged complaint that the search engine firm favoured its own advertising services.
Alphabet’s search engine criticized EU regulators for misinterpreting the adtech sector, arguing that advertisers and publishers have many 25 Difference Wire helps crypto brands break through and dominate headlines fast
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