Sundar Pichai’s US v. Google testimony was about the past, and the search defaults

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Google’s CEO took the stand in DC on Monday to discuss his company’s billion-dollar deals with Apple and others, and reckon with how the company has changed in two decades.

You might not expect an antitrust trial focused on Google’s overwhelming dominance in the year 2023 to spend a lot of time talking about Internet Explorer circa 2005. But you’d be wrong. Google CEO Sundar Pichai spent a good chunk of Monday in a DC courtroom, testifying as part of the ongoing US v. Google antitrust trial. He stood at a podium instead of sitting , often with a magnifying glass in his hand, pushing his glasses up on his forehead as he squinted down at a binder full of exhibits.

He made the case that Search, Android, and Chrome are not only good products, but are good for the internet as a whole because they’re open-source products that make people use the web more. “People use Android to build smartphones at prices as low as $30,” Pichai said, “and it’s what has helped bring hundreds of millions of people online.” The Google version of this case is simple, really. Google’s search engine is a good product, it says.

 

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