Google Seeks Stay of Court-Ordered Search Data Sharing as It Appeals Antitrust Remedies
The company argues the disclosure would expose trade secrets and asks Judge Amit Mehta to pause the syndication mandate during appellate review.
Overview
- Google filed its appeal and requested that Judge Amit Mehta halt only the data-sharing requirement, citing unrecoverable trade-secret exposure and user privacy concerns.
- The contested order mandates periodic sharing of ranking and index datasets with qualified rivals, including popularity and quality signals, first and last crawl times, spam scores, device-type flags, and DocID-to-URL mappings.
- The court explicitly exempted advertisement-related data from the disclosure requirements in the data-sharing remedy.
- Google said it is not seeking to delay other measures, including the one-year limit on preload contracts for apps such as its Gemini assistant.
- Judge Mehta’s remedies bar exclusive default search agreements and do not require a Chrome sale, while allowing distribution and preloading deals to continue, and the DOJ and states have until February 3 to decide on appealing for stronger remedies.