Google is the only company that can offer the level of features and functions that its famous Chrome web browser owns today, given the “connection” on other parts of the alphabet Inc. unit. , Chrome president.
“Chrome today represents 17 years of cooperation between the Chrome people” and the rest of Google, Parisa Tabriz, Director General of the browser, as part of the anti -monopoly issue in the Ministry of Justice in the Washington Federal Court, “said Parisa Tabriz, Director General of the Browser, on Friday as part of the anti -monopoly issue at the Ministry of Justice in the Washington Court of Federal. “In an attempt to separate this unprecedented.”
She said that some of the product features, such as a safe browsing mode or a system that notifies users if their password is at risk, depends on Google’s joint infrastructure not only within the jurisprudence of Chrome.
“I don’t think it can be re -created,” she added.
Search market
Tabriz witnessed for several hours before Judge Amit Mihita, who oversees a three -week hearing on the changes that Google must make on its commercial practices after it found last year that the company illegally monopolized the search market.
The Ministry of Justice requested that Google to sell the Chrome browser and share some of the data it collects to create its search results. I have also asked the Google Blore to pay for payment for the search engine. This proposed ban applies to Google’s AI products, including Gemini, which the government says with the help of the illegal monopoly of the company in research.
Google’s Chrome is the royal browser, and is the most popular in the world used by an estimated 66 % of people in the world as of March, according to Statcountter. The browser depends on the open source chrome project.
Chromium has been created by Google, but it accepts technical contributions from other companies and has support from Meta Platforms Inc. And Microsoft Corp. And Linux Foundation, among other things.
Earlier on Friday, James Mekings, a computer science expert at the Ministry of Justice, said that Google can easily transfer Chrome’s ownership to another company without breaking its jobs.
“Possible”
“Stripping vineyards is possible from an artistic perspective,” said Mekings, Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. “It will be possible to transfer ownership and not break a lot.”
Mickens previously worked as a Fortnite-Maker Epic Games Inc. expert. In the Anti -Google Against Affairs issue on Android Environmental System. Even without Chrome, Google still has incentives to maintain technology contributing to Chromium, which is the open source project on which its browser and supervisor is based on many competitors.
He said that Google smartphones from Google also uses some vineyards to ensure that web pages are loaded properly on phones.
“Google has a motivation to make sure that the source code is well -maintained,” said Mackens about Chromium.
But Tabriz gives doubts about this idea. She said that Google has contributed more than 90 % of the chrome code since 2015.
“Google invests hundreds of millions of dollars in the vineyards,” she said, and estimates that 1,000 engineers within its department contributed to the project. Other companies “do not contribute now to any meaningful way.”
Artificial intelligence integration
Tabriz said that Google is working to add artificial intelligence to the Chrome browser. Users can now add extensions to Openai’s Chatgpt and Pirplexity AI to Chrome or change the browser settings to facilitate the search using any AI models. But she admitted that Gemini is currently appointed as the virtual assistant for use inside Chrome.
“Most browsers try artificial intelligence features and releases,” she said, noting that Microsoft merged Copilot from artificial intelligence into the search engine and browser edge.
In internal documents, Google said it intends to develop Chrome into a “agent browser”, which integrates artificial intelligence agents to automate tasks and conduct procedures such as filling models, conducting research or shopping.
“We imagine a future from many factors, as Chrome integrates deeply with Gemini as a basic agent and one we will give priority to users and enable them to deal with 3P agents on the web in both consumer settings and institutions,” Tabriz wrote in an email 2024.
Nilen writes to Bloomberg