“That same market reality means that no remedy prohibiting Google from entering into such agreements will rectify the situation,” said Geoffrey A. Manne, president and founder of the International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE), in a white paper titled “A Critical Analysis of the Google Search Antitrust Decision.”

“It means that Apple, Mozilla, Samsung, et al. will still choose Google as the default, even if Google is forbidden from paying them a revenue share (or even a set price) to do so—they will just forego the revenue from doing so, and Google will get a windfall,” added Manne.