Google Ordered to Share Search Data With 'Qualified Competitors' to Remedy Antitrust Ruling, Keep Chrome

A federal judge ordered Google to hand over its search results and data to rival companies in a landmark antitrust case Tuesday, following the court's ruling that the tech company's online search business is a monopoly. District Judge Amit Mehta said that the tech giant cannot have exclusive contracts for its Google Search, Chrome, Google Assistant and Gemini app products as part of his proposed remedy to rectify the company's more than $2 trillion search monopoly. The judge also called on the company to share its search data with "qualified competitors," which is still only a . . .