Over the next 10 weeks, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, as well as top executives from a slew of tech companies, are expected to be called as witnesses.
kicked off on Tuesday with the DOJ claiming that the tech giant “pays more than $10 billion per year” to companies including Apple to protect the dominance of its ubiquitous search engine.
“This feedback loop, this wheel, has been turning for more than 12 years,” the DOJ’s lead attorney Kenneth Dintzer said during opening statements in a Washington, DC, federal courthouse.“This case is about the future of the internet and whether Google’s search engine will ever face meaningful competition,” Dintzer told Judge Amit Mehta, according to AP.
The epic case between Google and the US Justice Department kicked off on Tuesday. The DOJ’s litigators, including lead counsel Kenneth Dintzer , were pictured walking into a federal courthouse in Washington, DC.Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs who has called the DOJ’s suit “deeply flawed,” was present in court on Tuesday.
“They turned history off, your honor, so they could rewrite it here in this courtroom,” Dintzer said.reportedly has taken as much as $15 billion a year in payments from GoogleDespite commanding at least 90% of the internet search market, Google’s president of global affairs Kent Walker told The Post ahead of the trial: “People don’t use Google because they have to — they use it because they want to.
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