Overview

• Judge Amit Mehta barred exclusive contracts covering Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, and Gemini, set a one‑year cap on such deals, and required certain index and user‑interaction data be shared with qualified rivals.
• Advertising datasets are excluded from the data‑sharing mandate, narrowing how much competitive lift challengers may get.
• Mehta rejected a forced Chrome divestiture as a poor fit, declining broader structural remedies sought by the DOJ.
• Google said it will appeal, signaling that implementation could be delayed as oversight and access frameworks are contested.
• Separate DOJ proposals in the adtech case seek divestiture of AdX and likely DFP, open‑sourcing of auction code, and escrowed disgorgement for publishers, with a remedies hearing expected in roughly two weeks.