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Google gets off easy in the most significant monopoly case since Microsoft trial
The results are not nearly what the Justice Department has asked for.
However, he decided that the government's push for divestiture -- calling for Google to sell off Chrome or Android -- was "overreaching" and not appropriately justified, declaring such a remedy "incredibly messy" and unsupported by direct evidence. He added that in the case of Chrome, "The court's task is to discern between conduct that maintains a monopoly through anticompetitive acts as distinct from "growth or development as a consequence of a superior product, business acumen, or historic accident." Instead, Mehta has barred Google from striking or maintaining exclusive deals with phone and browser makers that guarantee its search engine as the default option.
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