Google will not have to sell Chrome, judge rulespublished at 21:36 British Summer Time
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A US judge has ordered that Alphabet’s Google will not have to sell Chrome, its massively popular web browser.
Google’s dominance of online search has has been the subject of a five-year legal battle with the US government.
In August 2024, a judge ruled that Google had used unfair methods to establish a monopoly over the market, actively working to maintain a level of dominance to the extent it broke American law.
The case centred around Google’s position as the default search engine on a range of products, both ones which it owns – Android and Chrome – and others like Apple.
Now, the court has ruled what the remedies to this monopoly decision should be.
Stick with us while we unpack what this landmark ruling means for the company and for those of us who its products.