Liz Reid, Vice-President, Search, Google speaks during an event in New Delhi on December 19, 2022.
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Testimony GoogleThe trial of recourse to antitrust research which wrapped the hearings on Friday shows how the company calculates the possible changes proposed by the Ministry of Justice.
Google’s chief of research, Liz Reid, said in court on Tuesday in court that the company should divert between 1,000 and 2,000 employees, around 20% of Google’s research organization, to make some of the remedies offered, a source knowing the confirmed procedure.
The testimony occurs in the last days of the trial for appeal, which will determine which sanctions should be taken against Google after a judge last year ruled that the company had organized an illegal monopoly in its main research market on the Internet.
The DoJ, which filed the original antitrust pursuit and proposed remedies, asked the judge to force Google to share his data used to generate search results, such as click data. He also asked the company to delete the use of “compulsory syndication”, which refers to the practice of concluding agreements with companies to ensure that its search engine remains the default choice in browsers and smartphones.
Google pays Apple Billions of dollars per year to be the default search engine on iPhones. It is lucrative for Apple and a precious way for Google to obtain more research and user volume.
The SVP of Apple Eddy Cue services said on Wednesday that Apple chooses to present Google because it is “the best search engine”.
The DoJ also proposed that the company would give in its Chrome browser, but this was not included in the initial calculation of Reid, confirmed the source.
Reid said on Tuesday that the database owner of Google “graph” of knowledge “, which it uses to surface research results, contains more than 500 billion facts, according to the source, and that Google has invested more than $ 20 billion in engineering costs and the acquisition of content over a decade.
“People ask Google questions that they wouldn’t ask anyone else,” she said, according to the source.
Reid echoed the Google’s argument that the sharing of his data would create risk of confidentiality, confirmed the source.
The closing arguments for the trial of the search appeals will take place on May 29 and 30, followed by the decision of the judge expected in August.
The company faces a separate remedies test for its advertising technology activity, which is expected to start on September 22.
