Michel Martin asks former Google CEO Eric Schmidt about the government's move to separate Google from its Chrome browser and the future of artificial intelligence as envisioned in the book 'Genesis.'
Michel Martin asks former Google CEO Eric Schmidt about the government's move to separate Google from its Chrome browser and the future of artificial intelligence as envisioned in the book"Genesis."Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt attends The Telegraph Hay festival at Dairy Meadows on May 25, 2013 in Hay-on-Wye, Wales.The Department of Justice is pushing for Google to spin off its Chrome browser.
On Friday, NPR's Michel Martin spoke with former Google CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt about the Justice Department's recommendations., co-authored with Craig Mundie and the late Henry Kissinger.Michel Martin: Google says the Justice Department's proposal to sell Chrome is staggering and argues it would harm user privacy and stifle innovation.
Schmidt: Chrome is by far the safest and most secure browser to use, and so if it's unbundled in some way, customers will just re-bundle it. And furthermore, the networks will essentially propose Google plus Chrome together. And from an economic perspective, let's imagine that you had a separate company called Chrome. That Chrome company would highly be integrated with Google's ad system, which is one of the things that the government, in my view, has falsely been complaining about.
Schmidt: But now what you have is you have the government getting into a very complicated deal between two large companies. Having been a little bit part of that deal, it's incredibly complicated. It took a year to come to. It was fairly negotiated. There must be some reason why the two companies are together. And I can tell you it's because Google has the best browser and search quality, and Apple thinks it certainly has the best product.
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