Google CEO warns feds' antitrust remedies could crush search engine [View all]

Google CEO Sundar Pichai warned that if a federal judge adopted the Justice Department's proposed remedies, the company would stop investing as much in innovative search technology.

Ryan Knappenberger / April 30, 2025

WASHINGTON (CN) — Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified Wednesday in the antitrust trial over the tech giant’s search monopoly that the Justice Department’s proposed remedies could crush Google Search.

The Justice Department has urged U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta to break up Google by selling off its Chrome browser, and potentially Android, while barring the company’s multibillion-dollar deals to make its engine the default on iPhones and other browsers like Mozilla.

Pichai, who previously testified during the liability phase of the monopoly trial, took the stand to blast the government’s proposal that Google share its search data with rivals to make them more competitive. Pichai called the suggestion a "disaster," “far-reaching” and “extraordinary.”

If the Barack Obama appointee orders Google to give up its search index — the database that a search engine relies on — and the way it ranks that data, it would “allow anyone to completely reverse engineer, end to end, any part of our technology stack,” Pichai said.
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