Google CEO Sundar Pichai has finally taken the stand in the biggest U.S. antitrust case in a quarter century
October 30, 2023 at 10:31 am PDTWASHINGTON — — Testifying in the biggest U.S. antitrust case in a quarter century, Google CEO Sundar Pichai defended his company’s practice of paying Apple and other tech companies to make Google the default search engine on their devices, saying the intent was to make the user experience “seamless and easy.’’
. The payments came to more than $26 billion in 2021, according to court documents the government entered into the record last week. Pichai, the star witness in Google's defense, testified Monday that Google's payments to phone manufacturers and wireless phone companies were partly meant to nudge them into making costly security upgrades and other improvements to their devices, not just to ensure Google was theGoogle makes money when users click on advertisements that pop up in its searches and shares the revenue with Apple and other companies that make Google their default search engine.
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