Overview

• U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta rejected forced divestitures of Chrome and Android in his Sept. 2 remedies ruling in the Google search antitrust case.
• Google must give qualified rivals access to specified search-index and user‑interaction datasets, with advertising data explicitly excluded.
• Exclusive default agreements are prohibited, but Google may continue non‑exclusive payments and preloads, preserving arrangements with partners such as Apple, previously estimated at about $20 billion annually.
• The order includes multi‑year technical oversight, reported as six years, and covers Google’s generative AI products to prevent the company’s search dominance from carrying over into that space.
• Google says it will appeal and the Justice Department is weighing options, as Alphabet shares jumped roughly 7–9% in extended trading and Apple rose about 3% after the decision.