Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, on Monday acknowledged the importance of being the default search engine in keeping users glued to the company's products -- a key point in a once-in-a generation antitrust fight with the U.S. government focused on the billions of dollars Google paid to be the default on laptops and smartphones.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, reacts during a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior officials and CEOs of American and Indian companies in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 23, 2023.
In testimony Monday morning, Pichai was shown instances where Google pressed Apple, wireless companies and smartphone makers which use Google's Android operating system to be made the default for their devices in exchange for billions of dollars in payments. A lawyer for the Justice Department asked Pichai about a 2007 discussion of Google executives, which included Pichai before he became chief executive, about an Apple request to let users choose their search engine on a new version of its browser Safari.
Before Google launched its Chrome browser, which competes with the Microsoft product, Pichai said, "The browser market at the time had kind of stagnated.
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