Search engines and chatbots to get data, as Google also told to open Android to rival AIs
The European Commission on Thursday ordered Google to comply with the EU’s Big Tech rulebook by sharing search data with competing search engines and letting rival AI chatbots onto its Android mobile platform.
The legally binding decisions fall under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which regulates Google’s search engine and mobile OS on account of their market power.
The US tech giant must start sharing search data with eligible search engines from January 2027. While Android users should be able to use third-party AI assistants – as an alternative to Google’s own Gemini AI chatbot – from July 2027 via a software update.
The confirmed obligations arise after the Commission’s preliminary orders in April. It opened the two DMA “specification proceedings” in January, establishing a regulatory dialogue with Google to define how it should comply.
