Sundar Pichai said the intent was to make the user experience ‘seamless and easy’.
Google chief executive Sundar Pichai has given evidence in the biggest US antitrust case in a quarter of a century, defending his company’s practice of paying Apple and other tech companies to make Google the default search engine on their devices.The US Department of Justice contends that Google – a company whose very name is synonymous with scouring the internet – pays off tech companies to lock out rival search engines to smother competition and innovation.
The antitrust case, the biggest since the Justice Department went after Microsoft and its dominance of internet browsers 25 years ago, was filed in 2020 during the Trump administration.US District Judge Amit Mehta is unlikely to issue a ruling until early next year.The company, based in Mountain View, California, could be stopped from paying Apple and other companies to make Google the default search engine.
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