Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, expressed strong opposition during an antitrust trial against the government's plan that would allow competitors to reverse engineer Google's search technology. He described the proposal as disastrous, arguing that sharing search data and its indexing methods would threaten Google's ability to innovate. Pichai highlighted the substantial investment of $49 billion in R&D and questioned the justification for continuing such investments if competitors could replicate Google's technology freely. His testimony emphasized the severe implications for Google's future in search.
If Google were required to allow other companies to build exact copies of Google's search experience, while also giving them access to how the tech works... I wasn't sure how to justify continuing to invest so heavily in search.
Pichai said the data-sharing proposal would be a disaster. He called it ‘far-reaching’ and ‘extraordinary’, appearing on the stand practically flummoxed...
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