A federal judge ruled in a high-profile antitrust case against Google on Tuesday with some good news and bad news for the tech giant. The good news for Google is that it won’t have to sell off its Chrome browser, which was a very real possibility. Google’s stock soared in after hours trading on the news.

The bad news for Google was that it will be required to share data with its rivals and can’t sign many of the exclusive contracts that helped the company become so dominant in the industry.

The ruling, which is available on Court Listener , comes from Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, who first ruled in Aug. 2024 that Google’s search business was an illegal monopoly.

“Google will not be required to divest Chrome; nor will the court include

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