Google CEO warns feds' antitrust remedies could crush search engine

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai warned that if a federal judge adopted the Justice Department's proposed remedies, the company would stop investing as much in innovative search technology.

Ryan Knappenberger / April 30, 2025

WASHINGTON (CN) — Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified Wednesday in the antitrust trial over the tech giant’s search monopoly that the Justice Department’s proposed remedies could crush Google Search.

The Justice Department has urged U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta to break up Google by selling off its Chrome browser, and potentially Android, while barring the company’s multibillion-dollar deals to make its engine the default on iPhones and other browsers like Mozilla.

Pichai, who previously testified during the liability phase of the monopoly trial, took the stand to blast the government’s proposal that Google share its search data with rivals to make them more competitive. Pichai called the suggestion a "disaster," “far-reaching” and “extraordinary.”

If the Barack Obama appointee orders Google to give up its search index — the database that a search engine relies on — and the way it ranks that data, it would “allow anyone to completely reverse engineer, end to end, any part of our technology stack,” Pichai said.
https://www.courthousenews.com/google-ceo-warns-feds-antitrust-remedies-could-crush-search-engine/


Awwww

[msongs]

1. takes just a few seconds to choose another browser and search engine besides google. nt

[yourout]

2. Nothing a few well placed crypto deposits can't make go away.

[Mark.b2]

3. I'm increasingly using AI tools rather than Google...

I’m also increasingly amazed. Today, I asked AI to compase a brief email to Jeep expressing my unhappiness with my vehicle’s CarPlay given a set of facts I’d exerienced lately. Unprompted, it even suggested a couple emil addreses to include as recipients. I’ve not see Googe do anything like that!

[ret5hd]

4. Oh please...google stopped "ranking" data years ago...

google now only concentrates on:
1) “ranking” ad space

and

2) AI that makes finding non-biased relevant data as difficult as possible to find, usually somewhere on the third page or even further down.

the enshitification of the relevance of google search results ties directly to googles profits.

please don’t piss on me and claim it’s raining. even your AI should know that i can tell the difference.