CEO Sundar Pichai testifies Monday as Google mounts its defense.

Google loses fight to hide 2021 money pit: $26B in default contracts::CEO Sundar Pichai testifies Monday as Google mounts its defense.

  • @TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52•1 year ago

    Some of his opinions I can’t agree with.

    “Where young people go, older people follow,” Raghavan said.

    Yeah, I hate it when grandma sends a bunch of snaps rather than posting to Facebook.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/priceonomics/2017/07/26/what-are-the-most-popular-websites-by-demographic/?sh=7f0ed13356f8 Looking at Forbes’ “Top 25 Websites with the Most Senior Audience”, look at the top sites:

    You’re telling me young people drove them there?

    So 6-10 years ago, someone’s grandkid said, “Hey, granny, I gotta go. Jimmy just found this amaze-balls puzzle at thejigsawpuzzles.com, and I’m gonna finish it before him.” and that’s how granny found out. /s

    “Nobody wakes up every morning and says I have to run a Google query,” Raghavan testified.

    No, but during the day I search (duckduckgo) for various issues at work, and at home for all sort of personal information (what’s that restaurant’s menu/phone number?, I need a schematic for washing machine, I even search prices to print a poster at Staples vs. Walmart vs. the UPS Store but used search engines to look at various local options too).

    While search engines can provide answers, they can be the conduit to get us to the answers we need (such as how much sodium is in this dish?). I can’t imagine being on the Internet and going a full day without using a search engine at least once.

      • @bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9•1 year ago

        I am also guilty of doing this fairly frequently. What’s ironic is that I use Gboard and its predictive text is hot garbage at times while Google will predict what I need almost immediately.

    • @isles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      The only backing to their first claim is that young people were on Facebook first and then the audience generalized. Younger people tend to be earlier adopters.

  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    9•1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Rather than seeing itself as above all competition, Raghavan told the court, Google is forced to invest and innovate to avoid losing relevancy.

    According to Raghavan, Google faces competition from a wide range of rivals beyond just other search engines, viewing Amazon and TikTok as top competitors, not Bing.

    Particularly with younger users—some of whom Raghavan said refer to the search engine by a derogatory nickname, “Grandpa Google”—Google allegedly faces stiff competition.

    Pichai will likely provide additional insights into how Google’s smart investments are responsible for creating the search empire it maintains today, Reuters reported.

    But he will also likely face the DOJ’s inquiries into why Google invests so much in default agreements if it’s not a critical part of the tech giant’s strategy to stay ahead of the competition.

    The DOJ is not likely to back down from its case that default agreements unfairly secured Google’s search market dominance.

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    • BearEnglish
      10•1 year ago

      I have never heard anyone say “Grandpa Google”. I have heard more people say “Bing it” than someone that didn’t use “Google” to mean search.