The three -week hearing that the tech giant could reproduce Google on Monday at the Washington Courtroom. 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, Google should be forced to sell its web browser chrome, which pushes people to the Google search engine.
The judicial lawyer David Dahlokist said 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 officials of chief technology and artificial intelligence agencies are expected to testify.
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.
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Google is currently the king of online searches with more than 89% global market shares, according to GlobalstatsA bit less than 91% last summer.
Representatives of Google and the judiciary did not immediately respond to the requests for the comment.
Want to buy Opena 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.
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 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 who transferred from one search engine to another in the row are “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 limited inter -state trade and competition in the marketplace, mainly prohibit corporate exclusive ban. 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.
