US v. Google antidepend trial: refreshs

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 unforeseeed amount of the morning in a time machine back to 2005.

That’s when Microgentle freed Internet Explorer 7 (the browser a Pichai-led team would ultimately crush by begining Google Chrome). At the time, Google’s legitimate chief David Drummond sent Microgentle a letter that was very mad about search defaults. Drummond wanted a choice screen, and said Google was very worried about the anticompetitive nature of Microgentle prioritizing its own search engine.

Pichai is being asked a lot of asks that amount to, “this is now the argument agetst you, right?” So far, he’s sparring with it pretty well.