October 31, 2023: Google CEO Sundai Pichai has provided long-awaited testimony about the relationship between his company and Apple. He provided some details about Google’s negotiations with Apple, which made Google the default search engine on Apple’s iPhone, iPad and Mac. Google has paid billions of dollars in privileges as a privilege for default search for Apple products, and the relationship is a key part of the case – a cross-examination of Pichai by the Justice Department, during which he acknowledged that default search status was the main driver of market share.
October 18, 2023: Google began a defense, saying Search vice president Paul Nayak was his first witness. Nayak underscores the importance of scale in his testimony Machine intelligencecomputing infrastructure and a team of 16,000 employees, checking search results is essential to maintaining service quality. Justice Department witnesses include DuckDuckgo CEO Gabriel Weinberg and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified that Google keeps its competitors better with increasing data, the result of its default search engine status, which is the payment it pays to Apple, Samsung and others through exclusive contracts and billions of dollars. They say the data gives Google an advantage in refining search engine results.
October 3, 2023: As a witness to prosecuting in Google’s antitrust trial, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that Google’s monopoly profits could lock in publishers with AI-enabled searches. Nadella believes that competing with Google is nearly impossible given the huge competitive advantage of search leaders in collecting and analyzing user data. He also warned that Google is ready to expand its monopoly power in a new era where artificial intelligence technology will turbocharge search business.
