SEARCH Act of 2026

This bill sets rules for large online search companies, called covered platforms, whose search or AI search is used monthly by at least 40 percent of U.S. residents over age 12 through outside devices or services. It bans these companies from paying device makers or browsers to make their search engine the default, and from favoring their own products in search results. It requires them to share search index, user, and ads data with qualified competitors at marginal cost with privacy filtering, license search results and ads to those competitors, and show users a search engine choice screen at setup and once a year. The Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Attorney General, and state attorneys general could enforce the law in federal court, with fines up to 15 percent of a company's U.S. annual revenue. The law would end after 10 years unless Congress extends it.

Full text and official record on Congress.gov

Sponsors

• Amy Klobuchar Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors