“Google says it will appeal online search antitrust decision”, May 31, 2025

Alphabet's Google…said it will appeal an antitrust decision under which a federal judge proposed less aggressive ways to restore online search competition than the 10-year regime suggested by antitrust enforcers...

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington heard closing arguments on Friday at a trial on proposals to address Google's illegal monopoly in online search and related advertising...

The DOJ and a coalition of states want Google to share search data and cease multibillion-dollar payments to Apple and other smartphone makers to remain the default search engine on new devices.

Antitrust enforcers are concerned about how Google's search monopoly gives it an advantage in artificial intelligence products like Gemini and vice versa... Google attorney John Schmidtlein said the company no longer enters exclusive agreements with smartphone makers, leaving them free to load rival search and AI apps on new devices.