Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai testified in the U.S. government's antitrust trial against the company on Monday.
The government's cross-examination of Pichai on Monday highlighted how Google has contended with the possibility of losing out on key distribution channels when it was a much smaller company. While Google has argued in its own defense that users can easily switch their default search engine on browsers and phones if they so choose, Google's then-Chief Legal Officer David Drummond wrote to Microsoft's then-General Counsel Brad Smith in a 2005 letter, "As you know, most end users do not change defaults."
Google had "proposed instead that users be prompted to select the default search provider the first time they use the inline search feature," Drummond wrote in the 2005 letter. Later, Bellshaw showed a 2007 presentation from a Google employee who helped negotiate revenue-sharing deals. One slide said that "What Apple wants" is for Google to be one of two search provider options. Pichai said this was specifically for a version of Safari on PCs.
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