For the last three weeks, the Ministry of Justice and Google has questioned more than two dozen witnesses to try to influence the federal judge’s decision on how to deal with the company’s illegal monopoly when searching on the Internet.
On Friday, this hearing at the US District Court is expected to end. To repair the monopoly, the government has proposed aggressive measures that include Nuci Google to sell their favorite Chrome web browser and share ownership data with competitors. Google claimed that small improvements to their business practices would be more appropriate.
Both sides will offer final arguments at the end of the month. It is expected that Judge AMIT P. Mehta, who presides the case, will achieve a decision until August. His decision could have significant consequences for Google, her opponent and the way people look for information online.
Here’s what to know about what has been argued for hearing.
What is the case of hearing?
In August, Judge Mehta ruled that Google had violated an antitrust law by paying companies like Apple, Samsung and Mozilla billions of dollars to automatically appear as a search engine in browsers and smartphones. He also decided that Google’s monopoly allowed him to inflate prices for some search ads and increased his unfair advantage.
Last month, Judge Mehta summoned hearing to determine how best to solve a search monopoly through measures called means. Google executives, competing search engines and artificial intelligence companies – along with experts – testified to Google’s power over the Internet.
What did the government argue?
The only way to end Google’s dominance in search is to take significant measures, government lawyers said.
The lawyers claimed that Google should be forced to spin Chrome and share the search results and ads with opponents, allowing them to fill their own search engines. Other search engines and some artificial news companies should access data about what Google users are looking for as well as on the website they click on.
During the hearing, the government warned that if Judge Mehta did not act measures, Google could make Google to dominate other technology, artificial intelligence. The search is in shocks because AI and Chatbots, as well as Gemini Google, change the way people find information on the web.
“The remedy of this court should be in advance and not to ignore what is on the horizon,” said David Dahlquist, the main judge of the government. “Google uses the same strategy as for searching and now applies it to Gemini.”
Eddy Cue, the executive director of Apple, called Google, said “In the last two months for the first time in more than 20 years,” Google Search questions have first dropped in Safari browser. Assigned a decrease in growth AI
What did Google argue?
Google lawyers said the government’s proposal would threaten products that consumers love and imperlate privacy and security for viewing the Internet.
“I think it will certainly have many unintended consequences,” said Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google.
Google data sharing with competitors would undermine the privacy of its users, the company’s lawyers said. Several times they pointed to the 2006 incident, when AOL published search data to help academic scientists. Journalists were able to use leaked data to identify an individual based on its search.
There are also a lot of competition in AI, they said they noticed the success of OpenI’s Chatgpt and other examples.
Instead, Google’s lawyers proposed that their contracts with web browsers and smartphones should offer more freedom to work with competitive AI search and services. Mr. Pichai testified that Google has already begun to change its contracts with other companies so that in this case in accordance with its proposal in accordance with its proposal.
(The New York Times sued Openai and his partner, Microsoft, for violating copyright related to AI systems. They rejected unlawful conduct.)
What did other companies say?
During the hearing, several Google competitors, including Openai and Chatbot Company, said they would be open to Chrome’s purchase if they were for sale. Government witnesses said that Google by Google’s search and advertising data would give AI an advantage when they tried to compete with Google.
What did the judge say?
When Judge Meht questioned witnesses during hearing, he provided a window into his thinking.
Occasionally he pushed witnesses to tell if some rivals could compete with the dominance of Google search, which would lack the intervention of the court.
Many of his questions revolved around AI and its importance because Google is fighting with its rivals to develop technology that has become the main force in the technology industry.
When Mr. Pichai was at the witnesses’ stand, Judge Mehta said he had observed the rapid development of AI since the action in the autumn of 2023 stood up in court, signaling that he was aware of how the growth of technology became a background hearing.
“One of the things that hit me, Mr. Pichai, is about these proceedings when we were so long ago, the consistent witnesses of witnesses was that the integration of AI and the search or impact on the search has been gone for years,” he said, referring to testimony during the 2023 process. “
