A man walks past a Google logo at the Google Campus in Warsaw on Feb. 13, 2025. Sergi Gapon/AFP via Getty Images
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In a ruling aimed at restoring competition in the search engine market, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta refrained from ordering Google to sell off Chrome, the world’s most popular browser, but ordered the tech company to end exclusive deals that make Google the default search engine on phones and other devices.
The company will not, however, be barred from paying device makers to preload its products, including its search engine and its