Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls Trump government’s remedies ‘too extreme’: ‘The proposal on data sharing is…’

Google CEO Sundar Pichai, taking the stand on Wednesday (April 30) in the antitrust trial, argued that a proposal by the US Department of Justice to mandate the sharing of Google’s search data with competitors will effectively amount to a “de facto” divestiture of the company’s core search engine. He termed the remedies too extreme and asserted that they will undermine Google’s ability to effectively compete within the market.As per a report by Bloomberg, Pichai said during his testimony before the federal court in Washington that requiring Google to share both its vast trove of search data and the intricate algorithms governing how it ranks results would enable rivals to reverse engineer “every aspect of our technology.”