Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, told the federal judge on Wednesday that he would do business a government proposal for the company’s distribution because he focused on averting drastic changes to correct the illegal monopoly on online search.
Judge AMIT P. Mehta from the US District Court for Columbia district last year decided that Google had violated the law to maintain a monopoly search. This month he summoned hearing to decide on measures known as remedies that would be introduced to solve illegal behavior.
As a second witness to the company, Mr. Pichai was called to make a case that the court should avoid an aggressive government solution, including Google forcing to sell its popular web browser Chrome and share data with opponents. Mr. Pichai said that a government proposal would lead the company to make less investment in new technologies if it needed to share benefits with its competitors for a minimum fee.
“I think the combination of all remedies causes it to invest in research and development as we have been in the last three decades, to continue innovation and building Google search,” he said with reference to research and development.
Mr. Pichai is the most important witness who is expected to testify in memory of a three -week hearing, which could again balance the dynamics of energy in Silicon Valley. The technical industry is locked in a plant to develop internet products powered by artificial intelligence and new restrictions on Google’s business could overcome the efforts of its opponents and defend their own.
Google searching is also the first main test of the US government’s effort to reduce the huge power of technical giants over trade, communication and online information. Federal judge in Virginia this month decided that Google was also a monopolist in some online advertising technology.
In the trial, the Federal Commercial Commission is issued with a meta on whether his acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp illegally burned out the arrivals of the arrival competitors. It is expected that other federal antitrust lawsuits against Apple and Amazon will be brought to court in the coming years.
The Ministry of Justice filed its action to search Google in 2020 during the first term of President Trump.
During the 2023 process, government lawyers argued that Google had locked other search engines by paying companies like Apple, Samsung and Mozilla to become a search engine that automatically appears in web browsers and smartphones. According to testimony, the company paid $ 26.3 billion within these stores.
Judge Mehta ruled against society in August. Last week he opened a three -week hearing to determine the corrective measures.
The proposal of the Ministry of Justice is extensive. The government claims that Google must sell Chrome because it automatically sends users’ questions to the company search engine.
In the testimony of Mr. Picha, which lasted about 90 minutes, he said that the company had invested a significant amount in Chrome and was best situated to ensure that the application was protected from cyber attacks. Mr. Pichai, who helped develop Chrome, was chillized when a government lawyer asked if he could predict how the future browser owner managed to manage cyber security.
“Given my deep knowledge of space and a general understanding of what skills and obligations of other companies are in the area of security, I think I can talk about it,” he said.
The government also wants Google to share its search results with opponents. According to the design, other search engines could access search data that Google users did and on the website they clicked.
Mr. Pichai called the sharing of forced data that required a “de facto sale” of the intellectual property of the company that “would allow anyone to completely turn the engineer, end, every aspect of our technological magazine”.
Google design is narrower. He said that it should be allowed to continue to pay other companies for its search engine to get the main location. However, he also said that some of these stores should be prepared for negotiations every year and that smartphones should have more freedom to decide what Google Apps should install on their device.
Judge Mehta asked Mr. Pichai how other search engines could compete with if the company was still able to pay for its own search product to get the main location.
“I can hardly think of exceptions to” the best product winning “,” Mr. Pichai added later.
