{"id":979032,"date":"2025-12-08T11:36:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979032"},"modified":"2025-12-08T11:36:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:06:59","slug":"court-orders-google-to-limit-default-search-and-ai-app-deals-to-one-year-why-it-makes-things-difficult-for-the-search-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/08\/court-orders-google-to-limit-default-search-and-ai-app-deals-to-one-year-why-it-makes-things-difficult-for-the-search-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Court orders Google to limit default search and AI app deals to one year: Why it makes things \u2018difficult\u2019 for the Search giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has got a setback in the Search antitrust case. A federal judge on Friday (December 5) ordered the company to restrict all contracts for default search and AI app placements to a maximum duration of one year. The ruling in a December 2025 judgment by Judge Amit Mehta of the US District Court of the District of Columbia means that the Search giant will not be able to make long-term deals that have helped it solidify its position across billions of devices globally.<\/p>\n<p>According to the judgment, Alphabet\u2019s Google must now renegotiate every default-placement agreement on a yearly basis. This includes deals with key partners like Apple\u2019s iPhone and major manufacturers such as Samsung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has got a setback in the Search antitrust case. A federal judge on Friday (December 5) ordered the company to restrict all contracts for default search and AI app placements to a maximum duration of one year. The ruling in a December 2025 judgment by Judge Amit Mehta of the US District Court of the District of Columbia means that the Search giant will not be able to make long-term deals that have helped it solidify its position across billions of devices globally. According to the judgment, Alphabet\u2019s Google must now renegotiate every default-placement agreement on a yearly basis. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}