Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: Google's unfair practices made it a 'dominant' search engine
'You can call it popular, but to me it's dominant,' Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told a Google lawyer during tense cross examination.
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'You can call it popular, but to me it's dominant,' Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told a Google lawyer during tense cross examination.
A senior Google executive once likened the company’s search advertising business to selling drugs, calling it “one of the world’s greatest business models ever created” since the company can “ignore” users and focus on generating revenue from advertising.
The government is likely to ask Nadella about the obstacles posed by Google's dominance as Microsoft sought to grow Edge and Bing, its browser and search engine.
Microsoft, a tech behemoth, recently claimed that it had been blocked by Google from selling its Bing search engine to Apple.
Bloomberg reported yesterday that the “embarrassing” document that Judge Amit Mehta referenced when allowing the DOJ to post documents from the Google Antitrust trial was from a “mock” training session. In it, Michael Roszak, Google’s VP of finance, reportedly called search ads one of the “greatest business models ever created” and likened it to “illicit businesses (cigarettes or drugs).”