AsianFin -- Google will not be forced to sell off its Chrome browser or Android operating system, a U.S. federal judge ruled Tuesday, marking a major victory for the tech giant in a landmark antitrust case.

The decision spares Google from the most severe remedy sought in the trial, which concluded the company had maintained an illegal monopoly in online search. Still, Judge Amit Mehta ordered Google to make certain search data available to qualified rivals and prohibited it from entering or maintaining exclusive distribution agreements for services such as Chrome, Search, Google Assistant and its Gemini app.

Those contracts, which provide Google with wide-reaching user access and significant revenue, had already been flagged by the company as potential remedies it might abandon. Mehta accepted some of Google’s proposed measures, formalizing them in his ruling.

The case placed Google’s core search business under intense scrutiny at a time when artificial intelligence tools such as chatbots are challenging its dominance. It also comes as the company prepares to defend its online advertising operations, which were deemed an illegal monopoly by regulators earlier this year.