Google seeks to avoid stricter regulations imposed by the US Justice Department in response to antitrust concerns.
If Google ’s generative AI Gemini Assistant chatbot is to surpass OpenAI’s ChatGPT in popularity in the coming years, it may have to do so without some of the promotional partnerships that helped thrust Google search front and center into Americans’ lives. In a US federal court filing on Friday, Google proposed a series of restrictions that for three years would bar the company from requiring its device manufacturer, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to their US users.
Google also would give those partners more flexibility in how they set their default search provider for their users. Google’s proposal counters last month’s call from the US Justice Department for Google to not only loosen its grip over partners, but also share more data with competitors and divest its Chrome browser business. The company on Friday formally rejected the idea of selling off any piece of its business or turning over more information to rivals. And its proposed restrictions could be construed as narrower than those sought by the government. The battle follows a ruling this past August by US district judge Amit Mehta in Washington, DC, who found that Google violated federal antitrust laws through deals it struck to be the default search provider on iOS and other software often in exchange for sharing ad revenue with the partners. The default arrangements helped Google gain and hold onto users, giving it monopolies in both search and search ads, Mehta found. The search giant was able to increase ad prices without constraint, fueling “dramatic revenue growth” and “remarkably stable operating profits,” Mehta wrote in his ruling. Now, Mehta must decide what penalties Google will face. He has scheduled hearings starting in April and is expected to release his decision by next August. The emergence of ChatGPT, Gemini, and similar chatbots as competitors to traditional search engines have loomed over the court’s proceeding
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