Google CEO grilled in US antitrust trial

By Agence France-Presse

Nov 01, 2023 12:15 am

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Google Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sundar Pichai faced a fierce grilling from a US antitrust lawyer on Monday as he pushed back against accusations that his company acted illegally to preserve the dominance of its world-leading search engine.

At the heart of the case by the US Department of Justice is Google's massive revenue sharing deals in which iPhone maker Apple takes a big cut of Google ad revenue made from being the default search engine on Apple devices.

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