The court announced the decision under the court hearing on the changes that Google will have to implement to eliminate violations of antimonopoly legislation. The solution turned out to be much softer than expected, and against the backdrop of this action, Google increased in price by 8%. At the beginning of the year, Google was recognized as a monopolist in the search systems market and, as a measure of influence, the prosecutors tried to achieve a judicial order obliging Google to sell part of the business related to the development of the Chrome browser or the Android mobile platform.
As a result, the court did not crush the company, but only forbidden some types of transactions and demanded to provide competitors with access to search data. In particular, the court prohibited the conclusion of exclusive agreements on the use or pre-installation by default of its products, but allowed to pay deductions for the use of Google Search, Chrome and AI services when concluding non-explosive agreements on the distribution of income. In the court decision, it was noted that the ban on the expulsion for search traffic would cause significant, and in some cases irreparable damage to partners, market and consumers.
To the ban, do not get transactions with Apple and Mozilla, related to the Google Search Traffic (perhaps the conditions is possible Agreements will have to be adjusted if they appear in the default use, but the very possibility of deductions is preserved). For Mozilla, the prohibition of Google search deductions would lead to the loss of the main financing channel and create conditions for the termination of the development of its own browser engine. For example, in 2020, Mozilla revenue amounted to $496 million, of which about $400 million was received as part of the Google transaction on the transfer of search traffic.