Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies ‘extraordinary’ DOJ remedies would cause ‘many unintended consequences’

Fuente: New York Post

Google CEO Sundar Pichai tried to convince a federal judge on Wednesday that the Justice Department’s proposed plan to break up its search monopoly would have “many unintended consequences. ” The DOJ has asked US District Judge Amit Mehta to approve several remedies, including a forced divestment of Google’s Chrome web browser and ordering the company to share data on search results and indexes with rivals to boost competition. Pichai, testifying in Google’s defense in Washington federal court, called the data-sharing requirement “extraordinary” and argued that it would result in a “de facto divestiture” of the company’s online search business.