You reported this back in August that this might be a consideration, that the DOJ would put this to the judge. What's moved on from that? Reporting live? Yes. So now we are actually getting into the remedies phase. So last night, the Justice Department put its first filing in. It actually just laid out a framework of various things that it's thinking about as it is crafting a remedy proposal. They're going to have an official proposal that lays out everything that they want Google to do on November 20th. But this was just sort of like, here's what we're thinking. These are some of the options. And the big one, of course, was the breakup. Okay. So let's get into that timeline. You mentioned November 20th. We'll bring it up on the screen. The first is the sort of firming of the proposals. Then Google gets a chance. Next April, we'll have a trial. And then by August, I think of 2025, we

might get some sort of decision. Explain all of that, please, Leah. Yes. So DOJ is going to put its filing in that says this is exactly what we want. You know, whether that's a breakup, data sharing, all those things. And then Google gets a chance to respond over the next couple of months. They're going to be doing a lot more discovery again. So they're going to do interviews with Google folks. They're going to get more documents, all leading up to this big two-week remedy trial that will take place late April in that. They're going to have witnesses testify before the judge about what would actually happen to Google's business if he takes any of these particular actions. And then he has promised that he will issue a decision in August of next year that officially wraps up the case at the trial court, and then Google can start its appeal. The appeal takes like 18 months to two years. So we're looking at like August for that.

This is sort of like the first big deadline. And then we'll go into the appeals, and then, you know, maybe some of this would be taking place like 18 months to two years from now, from then. Let's just go to Google's own response because the US judge is saying that Google's distribution agreements foreclose a substantial portion of the general search services market and impair rivals' opportunities to compete. That's the judge's take. Google's take is that this is pretty radical right here. Yes. I mean, Google said what he found was illegal is these specific contracts. So DOJ should be focusing on the contracts and just looking at those. They say, you know, that these things that the Justice Department is proposing go way beyond those contracts. They're talking about, you know, breaking up our company. They're talking about making us sell off Chrome, which wasn't even really part of the case that much because Google owns Chrome.

And so it is pushing back pretty hard on a lot of these remedies, the breakup in particular. The other thing that they have said is, you know, the Justice Department says that AI is a very big issue here because a lot of the data that Google uses to build its search results is the same data that is used to build its A.I. products. And the Justice Department says that Google shouldn't sort of get to benefit from the illegal conduct in the search market, in the AI market. And so it wants to put some limits on that. And Google says, wait a second, we were talking about search. That's not AI. You shouldn't get to like make some limits on us in this completely other different field. So that will be a big issue for the judge to decide next year.

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