TECH: A hearing on the US Justice Department's proposals to reduce Google's dominance in online searches will not be delayed to give Trump administration officials more time to modify the request, the judge overseeing the case said recently. I said. The DOJ has proposed forcing Alphabet's Google to sell its Chrome browser and possibly the Android mobile operating system in order to remove distribution points for Google Search. President-elect Donald Trump expressed skepticism about Google's dissolution in October.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington said he would not proceed with the trial, scheduled for April, in the event that Trump-appointed DOJ officials intend to modify the motions. “If the measures being requested are to be re-evaluated, it should be done quickly,” the judge said at a hearing. The DOJ sued Google in 2020 during Trump's first term. Mehta ruled in August that Google held an illegal monopoly in online search and related advertising. The Justice Department under US President Joe Biden has proposed not only selling the world's most widely used web browser to Google but also sharing data and search results with rivals.
The sweeping proposal also seeks to ban Google from buying or investing in search rivals, query-based artificial intelligence products or ad technology. Google called the proposals “shocking”, and said they would harm the U.S. Will harm competitiveness.What impact artificial intelligence has on the landscape of online search is expected to be a major topic in the lawsuit. Prosecutors have said they plan to call witnesses from ChatGPT maker OpenAI, artificial intelligence startup Perplexity, Microsoft and Meta Platforms.
Notably, the development comes as the company proposed a number of changes to its search results in the EU to avoid fines under the region's Digital Markets Act. Google wrote that the changes proposed by Google in the EU include new ad units for comparison sites, providing support for formats that allow comparison sites and suppliers to show more information about what is on their websites. allow and 'allow users to choose between results that take them to comparison sites and results that take them directly to supplier websites.'
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