Judge Amit P. Mehta said the company must hand over some of its search data to rivals, but did not force other big changes the U.S. wanted.

A federal court’s Google antitrust ruling gives Microsoft a rare opening with Bing and Copilot, but leaves Google’s dominance largely intact.

A U.S. judge has modified Google's search engine operations to limit its monopolistic practices while rejecting a full breakup. The ruling provides competitors access to Google's search data, aiming to encourage competition.

Interestingly, you can also change your default search engine in Google's own Chrome app. Just tap your profile image to pull up your Settings. Select Search Engine and you'll see the following options: Google, Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Yandex.

A federal jury has ordered Google to pay $425.7 million for improperly snooping on people's smartphones during a nearly decade-long period of intrusions.

Hours after this article was published, OpenAI said it removed the feature from ChatGPT that allowed users to make their public conversations discoverable by search engines. The company says this was a short-lived experiment that ultimately “introduced too many opportunities for folks to accidentally share things they didn’t intend to.

A federal judge’s remedy stops short of making meaningful changes to how we use our phones, computers and the web.

After a federal judge ruled that Google wouldn't be forced to sell its Chrome browser — avoiding the harshest potential remedies in a landmark antitrust case — shares of the search giant surged by almost double digits.