The US judiciary and Google are facing the court in court that companies are facing the court with allegations that the investigating engine is illegally maintaining its dominance in the market. As a result, the DOJ is advised to sell some of its main assets, including the Google Chrome browser. The hearing started on April 22 and it was expected to last three weeks.
The proposal has attracted interest from several technology companies, including OpenAI, confusion AI and Yahoo, if the court order its sales by expressing all the chromes.
The case is how technology companies do business, as well as people can change their online search questions. Public lawyer Made their case In the opening statement on Monday, Google should be forced to sell its web browser chrome, which pushes people to the Google search engine.
The judicial lawyer David Dahlocist says the company should also be forced to assist in rival search engines on the competing engines.
“This is the time for the court to say Google and all the other monopolists who are listening there, and they are listening to the consequences when you break the disbelief,” said Dahlocist According to the New York Times.
Google counter
Google lawyers say that any remedy should be considered as a default search engine for smartphones and other devices with companies such as Apple, Mozilla and Samsung.
“The Google Bazaar won its place in the fair and squares,” the company’s Attorney John Shmidtlin said, According to NBC News.
Amit P. US District Court Judge Amit P. for Colombia district. Mehta is now listening to the argument and the officials of chief technology and artificial intelligence agencies are testifying.
Mehta is the same judge who ruled in August that Google kept the exclusive in search of illegally. This trial held last year took 10 weeks and was the year to make.
In the August decision, Mehta wrote, “The court reached the following conclusions after considering the testimony and evidence of the witness’s testimony and proofs: Google is an exclusive, and it has worked as one to maintain its exclusive,” Mehta wrote in August. “It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.”
After Mehta listens to the argument, he is expected to order remedies at the end of the summer.
See it: The judge says Google is an illegal exclusive: What is now?
Google is currently the king of online searches with more than 89% global market shares, according to GlobalstatsA bit less than 91% last summer.
A representative for Google mentions CNET The online statement of the company Before the hearing began. The company’s vice president, Lee-Ann Mulland, says that such a hanging remedy will harm the American economy.
Mulholand calls this action a “back -to -face case” and says that the DOJ proposal will make users ‘desired services more difficult, preventing the company from compete fairly, and forcing Google to share the users’ personal search searches with other companies.
Openi, confusion and want to buy Yahoo Chrome
Tuesday, OpenAI Executive Nick Tarley testified The company that is forced to sell it will be interested in buying Google Chrome browser.
He also said that the artificial intelligence chatbot chatbot of the Openai “According to Reuters” is a few years away from the goal of using its own search technology to answer 5% of the questions. “Tarley also testified that Google Openai’s ChatzPT rejected the use of Google search technology.
Two other companies have expressed interesting in buying Chrome – confusion AI and Yahoo.
Chief Business Officer of Perplexity, Dimitri Sheveleno, Chrome has expressed interest in buying In court
General Manager of Yahoo’s search, Brian Provost, also The company has testified that the agency is interested In the achievement of chrome. Yahoo is developing its own browser prototype but it believes A quick route to buy chrome According to The Verge, the search market is increased.
Potential
A lot of things can happen to Google, including the company’s breakup. If this national fine is established, it may be involved in breaking the parts of the Chrome browser or the Android smartphone operating system.
The DOJ wants to prohibit Google to enter the exclusive agreement that makes its search engine default in devices and browsers. The judiciary also wants to share specific user data with competitors to make Google flat on the play field.
The government’s first attempt to break any organization for illegal monopology will be from the failed attempt to break Microsoft two decades ago.
Google may be forced to make its data available to competitors or leave controversial economic contracts that have made Google search engines default on a device like iPhone.
Why this matter?
Google is not the only company in the face of legal problems. The main technology companies are also facing the case of the disbelievers of Apple and Amazon. An Incredible judgment against metaThe owner of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp began on April 14.
Judgment can also affect the growing artificial intelligence era. The The judiciary said If it is not imposed on Google, it hopes that Google will use its AI products to increase its exclusive more.
And the presidential administration has changed since the August trial. As the Times Note, the hearing indicates that the Trump administration wants to monitor the changing technology industry.
Do people switch from default search engines?
The case of August focuses on Google to make Apple and other companies as a default on a device like Apple’s iPhone. Google says it does not maintain exclusive through this national agreement and customers can change their device default to use other search engines.
Microsoft’s CEO is true Nadella Has been testified in October People from one search engine to the other this idea is “complete bogus” and added “Defaults are only important in order to change the search behavior.”
According to the judiciary, the Google search engine is used for about 90% of web exploration, but the company opposes the number, the Times reported.
The Sherman Antitrast ActWhich limits inter -state trade and competition in the market, which in the market, mainly prohibits the exclusive ban on corporate. This is the basic basis of the incredible law of the US, which leads to the breakup of the guilded age industrial giants in the late 19th century of the Federal Government.
Imad Khan of CNET has contributed to this report.