Google Challenges Search Engine Ruling: Awaits Court's Decision Before Appealing
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Hey there! Google's at it again, this time challenging a court ruling on their online search practices. They've gotta lotta nerve, huh?
The tech behemoth has recently announced that it'll be appealing the decision "at the right moment," as they're "adamant" the initial verdict was "bogus."
Last year, a federal judge in Washington slapped Google with a guilty verdict for misusing its bloomin' powerful search engine to illegally monopolize the market. This has been another costly move for them, seeing as they've been shelling out billions to pals like Apple for installing its search engine on iPhones and the like.
The Department of Justice weighed in back in November, requesting the federal court to order Google to offload Chrome and stop pre-instaling its search engine as the default on smartphones. They also want Google to cough up the data it uses to generate search results. Google's response? They reckon this plan gives the government the power to decide who can get at their users' data, not the court.
But here's the twist: Google's claiming they're now getting some fierce competition from AI-driven technologies such as ChatGPT. These fancy models could jump straight onto the web and answer queries without the need for a search engine, turns out.
Google's defending-themselves strategy isn't all that aggressive, though. They're proposing telecom providers could pre-install Google Play, but stopping short of allowing them to pre-install Chrome or the search engine itself.
Stay tuned, this could go all the way to the Supreme Court, and possibly stretch on well into 2026. Google's keeping our fingers crossed that the Court agrees with them and overturns the original decision. Running a multibillion-dollar business ain't easy, I guess!
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Google is awaiting the court's decision before it decides to officially appeal the ruling that accused it of misusing its search engine for illegal monopolization in the technology sector. The U.S. Department of Justice previously requested the court to order Google to do away with Chrome and stop pre-installing its search engine as the default on smartphones.
