US v. Google: all the news from the search antitrust showdown

Google paid Apple $20 cardinal successful 2022 to beryllium Safari’s default hunt engine.

That’s according to Apple’s Eddy Cue successful tribunal documents filed up of closing arguments successful the DoJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Google. It’s the archetypal clip the fig has been confirmed, and marks an summation from the $18 cardinal reportedly paid successful 2021. The filing besides shows that Google’s 2020 payments were 17.5 percent of the Apple’s operating income.

‘Android is simply a monolithic tracking device.’

That was the connection from Apple successful an interior strategy papers from 2013. It has been revealed arsenic portion of the ongoing US v. Google antitrust trial. The document details Apple’s attack to privateness to differentiate from competitors similar Google and Microsoft. Apple aboriginal went connected to marque privateness an adjacent bigger portion of its selling transportation successful iPhone commercials successful 2019, with the “privacy matters” slogan.

Google agreed to not beforehand Chrome to Safari users.

After a amusive back-and-forth successful the courtroom astir the merits of redacting an grounds during Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s testimony, we got a caller tidbit of information. Google explicitly agreed, arsenic portion of its hunt woody with Apple, that it would not beforehand Chrome to Safari users — which it could bash with banners successful different Google apps, pop-ups, and the like, and does to galore different services.

We’re dilatory but surely learning however these deals get done, and it keeps getting juicier.

It’s Internet Explorer time successful US v. Google!

We’re a spot implicit an hr into Sundar Pichai’s grounds successful US v. Google, and we’ve spent a astonishing magnitude of the greeting successful a clip instrumentality backmost to 2005.

That’s erstwhile Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 (the browser a Pichai-led squad would yet crush by launching Google Chrome). At the time, Google’s ineligible main David Drummond sent Microsoft a missive that was precise huffy astir hunt defaults. Drummond wanted a prime screen, and said Google was precise disquieted astir the anticompetitive quality of Microsoft prioritizing its ain hunt engine.

Pichai is being asked a batch of questions that magnitude to, “this is present the statement against you, right?” So far, he’s sparring with it beauteous well.

Hello again from DC District Court!

I’m present contiguous to spot Google CEO Sundar Pichai attest successful the ongoing US v. Google antitrust trial. I conscionable saw Pichai spell done security, and there’s a batch of vigor successful the gathering to spot however Google’s person defends the company’s moves successful search.

Things are acceptable to commencement astatine 9:30, archetypal with Google’s lawyers and past transverse introspection from the Justice Department. The enactment to get successful is long, it’s weirdly lukewarm successful here, it’s gonna beryllium a day, friends.

“Chrome exists to service Google search.”

The US v. Google antitrust case whitethorn beryllium frustratingly shrouded successful secrecy, but occasionally we get immoderate amusive nuggets. The punctuation supra comes from an internal email sent by Google’s Jim Kolotouros, VP of Android Platform Partnerships. “Chrome exists to service Google search,” helium writes. “If it cannot bash that due to the fact that it is regulated to beryllium acceptable by the user, the worth of users utilizing Chrome goes to astir zero (for me).”

Sundar Pichai volition attest successful US v. Google connected Monday.

Pichai volition beryllium 1 of the archetypal witnesses Google calls for its antitrust defense, which started officially today. He’ll assistance marque the lawsuit that Google’s hunt occurrence is owed to its ain innovation and missteps by competitors, not large deals with companies similar Apple (which it allegedly paid $18 billion successful 2021).

Read Sundar Pichai’s afloat email speech astir the Apple-Google deal.

After a flimsy delay, the Department of Justice has posted an grounds from earlier this week successful US v. Google, shedding airy connected the details of Apple and Google’s multibillion-dollar hunt deal.

The 2007 email thread features Sundar Pichai expressing his discomfort with making Google the sole hunt supplier connected Safari, portion besides revealing different imaginable enactment helium disliked: afloat antithetic editions of Apple’s browser, 1 with Google and 1 with Yahoo arsenic the chosen hunt engine.

Back successful 2007, Sundar Pichai thought Google shouldn’t beryllium Safari’s lone hunt option.

Now, his email to Larry Page and Sergey Brin (among others) has surfaced in the US v. Google trial, wherever the Department of Justice is taking purpose astatine Google’s multibillion-dollar woody for premier placement successful Apple’s browser. Google argues it’s simply the champion choice, but successful those aboriginal years, Pichai appeared ambivalent astir the exclusivity woody regardless.

“I cognize we are insisting connected default, but astatine the aforesaid clip I deliberation we should promote them to person Yahoo arsenic a prime successful the propulsion down oregon immoderate different casual option,” helium wrote. “I don’t deliberation it is simply a good user acquisition nor the optics is large for america to beryllium the lone supplier successful the browser.”

Today connected The Vergecast: Big Tech goes to court.

The authorities is successful the mediate of a proceedings with Google, heading toward 1 with Amazon, and successful wide trying to alteration the mode we deliberation astir monopolies. Also: Sam Bankman-Fried’s proceedings has begun, and it has already been eventful. All that, and an ebook debate, connected the flagship podcast of the Sherman Act.

An hour-long past acquisition astir Microsoft’s galore failures successful mobile.

A immense portion of Google’s defence successful US v. Google is that it’s not amerciable to physique a large product. And to beryllium that that’s each that’s happening here, Google lawyer John Schmidtlein has spent the past 60 minutes reminding Satya Nadella of Microsoft’s decades of atrocious decisions astir Internet Explorer, Live Search, Windows Phone, and each its different browser and mobile screwups. He adjacent has an interior canvass that is headlined: “Our Mobile Story Sucks.”

Nadella is mostly conscionable responding “that sounds right” and “correct.” He’s not arguing that Bing is amended than Google — he’s arguing that it’s intolerable to beryllium amended than Google. And Schmidtlein says no, it’s conscionable that Bing sucks. And that’s your fault, not ours.