Google CEO Sundar Pichai warns United States’ “extraordinary” plans for Search and Chrome may ‘kill’ Google

Google CEO Sundar Pichai warned that the US Department of Justice’s proposed antitrust remedies could make Google Search unviable, potentially forcing the company to reconsider its flagship product. During testimony in the remedies phase of Google’s search antitrust trial, Pichai called the government’s plan “far-reaching” and “extraordinary.”

“It might be hard to justify continuing to build a search engine at all,” Pichai testified, describing the DOJ’s demands as a “de facto divestiture of search.”