Google won't be forced to sell Chrome after all

For almost a year, the future of the world's most popular web browser has been a question mark. After the United States declared Google an illegal monopoly in online search, federal prosecutors put forth a forced divestment of Chrome as one possible legal remedy. The case is now resolved, pending appeal, and Google won't have to sell Chrome. Instead, Google will have to provide search index data and amalgamated user metrics to at least some of its competitors. Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the government prosecutors couldn't prove that Google's dominance in the browser space--just under 70 percent of market share, at the time of writing--was essential to its illegal monopoly in search, as Ars Technica reports.