India, Sept. 3 -- Alphabet's Google (GOOG) has avoided a court-ordered breakup of its online advertising business after a federal judge rejected the U.S. Justice Department's proposal to force the sale of its AdX advertising exchange.
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema instead accepted most of the parties' proposed behavioral remedies, although the specific details remain sealed for 14 days to allow for redactions.
The ruling follows Brinkema's April 2025 finding that Google unlawfully maintained monopolies in publisher ad servers and ad exchanges, including by tying its AdX exchange to its publisher ad-server business.
The DOJ had sought structural remedies including divestiture of AdX, open-sourcing of DFP's final auction logic and a ...