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Google is appealing the court’s decision that it monopolized its online search and advertising businesses. In the meantime, the firm has also filed a notice to postpone the court order requiring it to share its data with rival firms as a remedy for its illegal monopoly.  Alphabet’s owned search engine firm filed the appeal on Friday alongside the request to pend the implementation of the remedies to reduce its competitiveness against other search engine firms. The U.S. Court of Appeals is likely to hear the case, which, based on statistics, may take about a year to issue a decision after the appeal notice. This means if the appeal goes through, Google still has about a year to continue its operations without sharing data with rival firms.  Google asks a U.S. Court Judge to postpone the ruling to share data with rivals U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled in 2024 that Google used unlawful tactics to maintain a monopoly against other search engine firms in the online search and advertising business. The case was first filed in 2020 during Trump’s first term before entering trial in the fall of 2023.   According to Mehta’s ruling, Google signed deals with smartphone companies, including Samsung Electronics Inc. and Apple Inc., to make Google’s search engine the default. The search engine firm pays roughly $20 billion for those deals, which denied other companies key distribution channels. The U.S. Justice Department filed to sell Google’s Chrome browser, a move Judge Mehta rejected in a second trial held last year. Instead, Mehta ruled that Google must continue to pay for its search engine and AI apps to be the default on its smartphone partners, but with the condition that the deals be rebid annually to allow its competitors an equal opportunity to compete.  Additionally, Google was…

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