Overview
- Google filed its appeal on Friday, May 22, asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to overturn the August 2024 finding that it unlawfully maintained a search monopoly and to undo the September 2025 remedies order.
- The district court ordered Google to share certain search data, give rivals portions of search results and index access, and limit default search deals to 12 months; Google says those remedies improperly transfer its decades of investment.
- Court records shown at trial put the Apple–Google arrangement at roughly $20 billion paid in 2022 and about 36 percent of Safari search ad revenue going to Apple, a central fact the appeal contests as lawful competition.
- Google asks the appeals court to exclude generative AI firms from receiving search data, arguing those products did not meaningfully exist in the period the case examined and should not qualify as rivals.
- The Department of Justice and a coalition of states filed a cross-appeal seeking broader relief, implementation steps by the judge-appointed Technical Committee remain unresolved, and the remedies are on hold pending the appeals process.