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Google CEO Sundar Pichai had raised concerns about the search giant’s exclusive partnership on Apple. Google pays the Cupertino-based tech gaint billions of dollars to have the Google search as the default search engine on all its devices including iPhone, iPad and Mac.

The revelation was made by the US Justice Department while presenting the email Pichai sent in 2007 to Google co-founders Larry Page, Sergey Bin and other top executives as part of the evidence in the Google antitrust trial. 

 Pichai who was the in charge of the company’s Chrome browser had shared his concerns about Google paying Apple in return for the iPhone maker placing Google Search as the default option on the Safari Browser. 

Pichai wrote, “I know we are insisting on default, but at the same time I think we should encourage them to have Yahoo as a choice in the pull down or some other easy option… I don’t think it is a good user experience nor the optics is great for us to be the only provider in the browser.”

What is Google antitrust trial? 

Google is being sued by the US Justice Department over allegations that the tech giant smothered over the competition by paying companies like Apple, Verizon and others in order to make its search engine the first that users see when they open their devices, AP reported.

Regulators argue that Google pays around $10 million to smartphone companies like Apple in order to have its software as the default search engine on their devices.

Google has argued that it dominates the search engine market because it is better than the competition while noting that users have the option of switching to other search engines with a couple of clicks.

The antitrust case is the biggest suit brought by the Justice Department since the body targeted Microsoft’s dominance over the Windows operating system around 25 years back. The case was first filed during the Trump Administration in 2020 and the trial began on September 12 at the US District Court in Washington DC.

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Updated: 11 Oct 2023, 10:04 AM IST

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