美司法部与多州吁上诉法院立即禁止谷歌搜寻支付，忧垄断利润压制AI竞争
谷歌搜寻垄断案的救济之争打到了上诉法院。10月22日，美国司法部与参与诉讼的多州向联邦上诉法院表示：必须立即禁止谷歌向分销商支付与搜寻相关的款项，不能等到谷歌用“垄断利润”扼杀新兴生成式 AI 产品的竞争之后。
司法部与各州的论点是：这类支付协议让谷歌得以阻碍竞争对手获得规模经济、提升服务品质；下级法院不应优先考虑与谷歌签约的商业伙伴的利益，而牺牲未来的市场竞争与参与者。
这起案件的时间线很长：2020年10月司法部首次起诉谷歌搜寻垄断；2024年，阿米特·梅塔（Amit Mehta）法官裁定谷歌非法维持其搜寻垄断地位；2025年9月的救济裁决禁止了与搜寻、Chrome、谷歌助手和 Gemini 应用分销相关的排他性协议，要求谷歌向部分竞争对手开放搜寻索引与用户交互数据，但没有禁止谷歌每年为锁定默认搜寻地位支付的超过260亿美元——法官认为全面禁止弊大于利，也驳回了分拆 Chrome 浏览器的要求。司法部随后提起交叉上诉，谷歌自己也已就责任认定提起上诉。
U.S. DOJ and States Urge Appeals Court to Immediately Ban Google's Search Payments, Warning Monopoly Profits Could Squelch AI Competition
WASHINGTON — The fight over remedies in the Google search monopoly case has reached the appeals court. On October 22, the U.S. Department of Justice and plaintiff states told a federal appeals court that Google must be banned from making search-related payments to distributors immediately — before it uses its "monopoly profits" to squelch competition from emerging generative AI products.
The DOJ and the states argued that such payment deals allow Google to block rivals' ability to gain scale and improve quality, and that the lower court should not have prioritized the business partners with which Google made agreements to the detriment of future competition and participants.
The case has a long timeline: the DOJ first sued over the Google search monopoly in October 2020; in 2024, Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google had illegally maintained its monopoly; and a September 2025 remedies decision barred exclusive distribution deals tied to Search, Chrome, Google Assistant and the Gemini app and required Google to share search index and user-interaction data with certain competitors — but stopped short of banning the more than $26 billion Google pays each year to lock in default search placement, which the judge said would do more harm than good. The decision also rejected forcing a sale of the Chrome browser. The DOJ has since cross-appealed, while Google has appealed the liability finding itself.
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