Sundar Pichai says the DOJ’s antitrust plan could kill Google Search

Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, took the basal connected Wednesday during the remedies signifier of the company's hunt antitrust trial, and offered a elemental message. The US government's program to rectify Google's hunt monopoly, helium said, would beryllium truthful crushing to Google Search that it mightiness beryllium hard to warrant continuing to physique a hunt motor astatine all.

Pichai was called by Google successful its defense, the 2nd witnesser successful its information of the proceedings aft the Department of Justice finished much than a week of its ain questioning. John Schmidtlein, 1 of Google's pb attorneys, archetypal led Pichai done a circuit of Google's R&D investments, asking him however overmuch the institution has spent connected Search, AI, and different projects. (The answer: astir $49 cardinal conscionable past year.) Then helium asked Pichai astir the government's connection to necessitate Google to stock overmuch of its hunt data, and its hunt index, with competitors astatine a "marginal cost."

Pichai said the data-sharing connection would beryllium a disaster. He called it "far-reaching" and "extraordinary," appearing connected the basal practically flummoxed by the precise thought of the proposal. He said that requiring Google to springiness up each the information successful its hunt index, and the ways it fertile …

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