Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, reacts during a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior officials and CEOs of American and Indian companies in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 23, 2023.
REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsWASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) and its subsidiary Google, will testify on Monday in the once-in-a generation antitrust fight with the U.S. government over Google's dominance of search and some parts of search advertising.
The government, in cross examination, will likely also ask why the company pays billions of dollars annually to ensure that Google search is the default in smartphones.
The clout in search makes Google a heavy hitter in the lucrative advertising market, its biggest revenue source.
It has also argued that if people are dissatisfied with default search engines that they can, and do, switch to another search provider.
Persons:
Sundar Pichai, Joe Biden, Narendra Modi, Evelyn Hockstein, Diane Bartz, Chris Sanders, Marguerita Choy
Organizations:
Google, U.S, India's, White, REUTERS, Rights, Alphabet Inc, Apple, Thomson
Locations:
Washington , U.S