Google DOJ to Make Final Push in US Search Antitrust Case
The legal proceedings approach their climax, hanging in suspense over the very fate of the Google empire. Will the mighty tech giant be forced to surrender Chrome-out-of-the-box? Will other remedies be imposed to even the playing field in the cutthroat world of online search? Friday will witness the antitrust trial’s final showdown wherein the opposing parties are Alphabet’s Google and US antitrust authorities-a trial able to cast huge implications for the architecting of the internet.
The empire of Google has faced a siege. Apart from demanding the sale of Google Chrome at a fire sale basis, these authorities seek to forcibly open Google’s search data vault, kept under tight security. The federal government and various states have brought an assault upon practices that allow Google to bill billions to Apple and other manufacturers to make Google the default search engine on their devices. This legal bombardment may change the landscape of the internet altogether.
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- By: Niharika Kulkarni, Aziza Kasumova
About Google’s market dominance was declared illegal in a landmark ruling; fresh challenges arose, including new proposals to revive competition in online search and advertising. But the actual disruptor is AI, which threatens the once firmly entrenched president of Google as the prime hub of information on the Internet.
Presiding over the trial, which began in April, Judge Amit Mehta is on the verge of rendering his decision on the contentious proposals by August’s end. The dawn of a new era awaits his decision in the courtroom.
“In an antitrust face-off unfolding, OpenAI, firing behind ChatGPT, has decided to join the fray for Chrome. Nick Turley, OpenAI’s product chief, spilled the beans: if forces beyond will compel Google to divest the browser, OpenAI intends to get in.”
Now, combine the vast world’s search data into the hands of OpenAI. Turley states this blend may elevate the AI from clever to clairvoyant, spitting out answers so accurate, so present-day, they feel as if they have been torn from tomorrow’s headlines.
Google is firm in its stance that the proposed regulations are setting the line very far away. It is seen as a bridge too far, considered being totally unfair as it would have legal backing to be compelled to hand over the company’s top-secret technology to its competitors. Start thinking of it as unleashing the company’s secret in order to manufacture his or her own sauce for being aggrandized in the first place. The preliminary chance is already playing out as Google unbundles its services for big smartphone makers such as Samsung, begrudgingly letting the competitors’ search and AI muscle in.
The Justice Department wants a real knockout punch: not just a mere fine for Google but an outlawing of the tech giant’s practice of paying big bucks for premium placement of its search app on devices. They want the judge to break up Google’s high revenue pre-installed search monopoly.
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