A federal judge announced what remedies Google faces after the company was found to have a monopoly in online search. On the OS front, the Justice Department wanted Google to sell Chrome and the option to spin-off Android if other remedies did not work. The district judge overseeing the case ruled today that Google does not have to sell the browser, or Android: “Plaintiffs overreached in seeking forced [divestiture] of these key assets, which Google did not use to effect any illegal restraints.” Additionally, Google can keep paying Apple, Mozilla (Firefox), and others to preload Search, Chrome, and AI products. The court recognized that a ban would cause “substantial—in some cases, crippling— downstream harms” to consumers and partners. However, Google is barred from exclusive Search contracts that prohibit other providers from also being installed on devices. The big change is that Google must share “certain search index and user-interaction data, though not ads data” with “Qualified Competitors.” The aim is to “enable those firms to deliver high-quality search results and ads to compete with Google while they develop their own search technologies and capacity.” The decision recognizes how much the industry has changed through the advent of AI, which is giving people so many more ways to find information.