It’s Internet Explorer day in US v. Google!
We’re a bit over an hour into Sundar Pichai’s testimony in US v. Google, and we’ve spent a stunning quantity of the morning in a time machine again to 2005.
That’s when Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 7 (the browser a Pichai-led workforce would finally crush by launching Google Chrome). At the time, Google’s authorized chief David Drummond despatched Microsoft a letter that was very mad about search defaults. Drummond wished a selection display screen, and mentioned Google was very nervous concerning the anticompetitive nature of Microsoft prioritizing its personal search engine.
Pichai is being requested a variety of questions that quantity to, “that is now the argument in opposition to you, proper?” So far, he’s sparring with it fairly properly.
