A federal judge said Google should relax its rules governing its online advertising auctions and appoint an internal antitrust compliance monitor, though the judge stopped short of demanding that the Alphabet unit break up its advertising technology monopoly.
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, gave her assessment in a decision unsealed on Wednesday, two weeks after she rejected the U.S. Department of Justice's insistence that Google break up its business of placing ads across the internet.
