Overview
- The company filed a notice of appeal and asked Judge Amit Mehta to pause orders requiring it to share raw search interaction data and provide syndicated results to rivals.
- Google says it will not seek to pause other court-ordered obligations, including privacy and security safeguards for user data.
- The D.C. Circuit is expected to take up the case later this year, and analysts expect roughly a year for a ruling, which could delay enforcement of the remedies.
- In its filing and public statements, Google contends the trial court minimized consumer choice and competition, citing testimony from Apple and Mozilla about choosing Google for quality.
- Mehta’s remedies, finalized late 2025, stopped short of forcing a Chrome divestiture but require annual rebids for default search deals and data access for qualified competitors, which Google argues should not extend to rivals such as OpenAI before appeals conclude.