It's hard to imagine life without Google. The internet as we know it is built around search engines, and Google is the biggest of them all. In 2024, Google was the primary search engine for 76% of ...

and neither are Google’s payments to developers of competing browsers to keep its search engine as their default. “The money flowing into this space, and how quickly it has arrived, is astonishing,” ...

A federal judge ruled against breaking up Google, but is barring it from making exclusive deals to make its search engine the ...

Google will have to give up search data to competitors but can keep Chrome and Android, a federal judge ruled in the landmark ...

Google avoids Chrome and Android breakup but must end exclusive search default deals, and may have to share data with rivals. Google won't be broken up but must end exclusive default search deals.

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