Google ordered to make search engine changes - but avoids dramatic break-up

A US national justice has ordered a large makeover of Google's hunt motor successful a crackdown aimed astatine addressing the damaging effects of monopolistic practices.

In an effort to curb Google's influence, Washington DC Judge Amit Mehta has introduced caller limitations connected however the institution directs postulation to its hunt engine.

He is requiring the tech elephantine to assistance existent and imaginable competitors entree to cardinal elements of its hunt engine, including the immense information collected from trillions of queries that heighten the prime of its results.

However, the justice rejected the government's much ambitious bid to divided up the company, and its effort to compel the steadfast to merchantability its wide utilized Chrome web browser.

And it won't person to merchantability mobile operating strategy Android.

He besides stopped abbreviated of banning the multibillion-dollar deals that Google has been making for years to fastener successful its hunt motor arsenic the default connected smartphones, idiosyncratic computers, and different devices.

Those deals, involving payments of much than $26bn (£19.4bn) annually, were cardinal to a astir five-year-old antitrust lawsuit brought by the US Justice Department.

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The 226-page ruling by US District Judge Amit Mehta successful Washington DC is inactive expected to person far-reaching effects connected the tech industry, which is being transformed by advances successful artificial intelligence.

Platforms similar OpenAI's ChatGPT are challenging Google's ascendant relation arsenic the internet's main gateway.