“Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” concluded Judge Amit Mehta last year, in a significant ruling against the company. It had acted illegally to maintain a dominant position in search, Mehta concluded, with a variety of tactics, chief among them spending tens of billions of dollars to make Google the default search engine in desktop and smartphone web browsers. Last week, following a May trial, he outlined what would be done about it: Not very much at all, actually.

No forced spin-off of Chrome . No breakup of Google’s interdependent properties . No data-sharing from the company’s advertising business. Most surprising was the lack of prohibition on search preference deals , a centerpiece of the ruling that would have been relatively straight

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