Google just dodged the biggest bullet it has faced in years, and now the stock is popping off. The DOJ wanted to chop the company into little pieces of Chrome, Search, Cloud, Android, etc. but Judge Mehta just gave them a small slap on the wrist instead. The end result? Google still gets to funnel billions into Apple to remain as the iPhone's default search engine, which means the money printing machine keeps on printing. Challengers OpenAI and Perplexity are still in the running, but with Google's product lineup still fully intact, they still have plenty of time to figure out how the fuck to make money from Gemini.
RIP bears and any hope of anti-trust.
MICROMAN