Google won at Monopoly...
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Fireship breaks down the Google antitrust remedy: Chrome and Android stay, but Google must share search data and end exclusive default deals.
- Google convicted of antitrust violations for paying Apple $20B/year (36% of search revenue) to be default search engine.
- Judge rejected DOJ demand to force-sell Chrome; Google keeps both Chrome (69% browser market share) and Android.
- Google stock jumped 10% on the ruling, adding hundreds of billions in market cap in one day.
- Perplexity had offered $34.5B to acquire Chrome if forced divestiture happened — it didn’t.
- Remedy requires Google to share anonymized search/crawl data with competitors and stop exclusive default-search deals.
- Apple can keep its Google search deal; it just can’t be framed as exclusive — rival engines can bid to be iPhone default.
- Judge cited generative AI disruption as reason Google’s search dominance is less entrenched, softening the remedy.
2025-09-04 · Watch on YouTube
