{"id":26883,"date":"2025-04-30T16:08:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T16:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26883"},"modified":"2025-04-30T16:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T16:23:57","slug":"googles-chief-says-breakup-proposal-would-hobble-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26883","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Chief Says Breakup Proposal Would Hobble Business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sundar Pichai told a federal judge that the government\u2019s solution to fix its monopoly in search would harm innovation.<\/p>\n

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Google\u2019s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, told a federal judge on Wednesday that a government proposal to break up the company<\/a> would hobble the business, as he aimed to stave off drastic changes to fix an illegal monopoly in online search.<\/p>\n

Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled last year<\/a> that Google had broken the law to maintain a search monopoly. This month, he convened a hearing<\/a> to decide on the measures, known as remedies, that would be put in place to address the illegal behavior.<\/p>\n

As the company\u2019s second witness, Mr. Pichai was called to make the case that the court should avoid the government\u2019s aggressive solutions<\/a>, including forcing Google to sell its popular Chrome web browser and share data with rivals. Mr. Pichai said that the government\u2019s proposal would lead the company to make fewer investments in new technology if it needs to share the benefits with its competitors for a minimal fee.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe combination of all the remedies, I think, makes it unviable to invest in the R&D the way we have for the past three decades, to continue to innovate and build Google search,\u201d he said, referring to research and development.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Pichai is the highest profile witness expected to testify at the landmark three-week hearing, which could rebalance the power dynamic in Silicon Valley. The tech industry is locked in a race to develop internet products powered by artificial intelligence, and new restrictions on Google\u2019s business could supercharge its rivals\u2019 efforts and hamper its own.<\/p>\n

The Google search case is also the first major test of American government efforts to restrain tech giants\u2019 enormous power over commerce, communications and information online. A federal judge in Virginia ruled this month that Google<\/a> was also a monopolist in some online advertising technology.<\/p>\n

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Sundar Pichai told a federal judge that the government\u2019s solution to fix its monopoly in search would harm innovation.Google\u2019s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, told a federal judge on Wednesday that a government proposal to break up the company would hobble the business, as he aimed to stave off drastic changes to fix an illegal monopoly in online search.Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled last year that Google had broken the law to maintain a search monopoly. This month, he convened a hearing to decide on the measures, known as remedies, that would be put in place to address the illegal behavior.As the company\u2019s second witness, Mr. Pichai was called to make the case that the court should avoid the government\u2019s aggressive solutions, including forcing Google to sell its popular Chrome web browser and share data with rivals. Mr. Pichai said that the government\u2019s proposal would lead the company to make fewer investments in new technology if it needs to share the benefits with its competitors for a minimal fee.\u201cThe combination of all the remedies, I think, makes it unviable to invest in the R&D the way we have for the past three decades, to continue to innovate and build Google search,\u201d he said, referring to research and development.Mr. Pichai is the highest profile witness expected to testify at the landmark three-week hearing, which could rebalance the power dynamic in Silicon Valley. The tech industry is locked in a race to develop internet products powered by artificial intelligence, and new restrictions on Google\u2019s business could supercharge its rivals\u2019 efforts and hamper its own.The Google search case is also the first major test of American government efforts to restrain tech giants\u2019 enormous power over commerce, communications and information online. A federal judge in Virginia ruled this month that Google was also a monopolist in some online advertising technology.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26885,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26886,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26883\/revisions\/26886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}