A federal judge, Amit Mehta, issued a 226-page ruling in the ongoing antitrust case against Google, aiming to reduce the company’s monopoly power over internet search.

The ruling comes nearly five years after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed the lawsuit, initially under the Trump administration and pursued by the Biden administration.

The big picture: Mehta stopped short of breaking up Google or banning the company’s lucrative default search engine deals, which generate over $26 billion annually. • These default deals with smartphone, PC manufacturers, and browsers were central to the DOJ’s case, but the judge concluded banning them could cause more harm than good. • The judge rejected DOJ’s request to force Google to sell its popular Chrome browser, labeling such a move as

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