Google's Pichai: bad optics of Apple search engine deal
Google's Pichai: bad optics of Apple search engine deal
“I don’t think it is a good user experience nor the optics is great for us to be the only provider in the browser,” he said.
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“I know we are insisting on default, but at the same time I think we should encourage them to have Yahoo as a choice in the pull down or some other easy option,” Pichai wrote of the agreement, which is at the center of the government’s case.
The Justice Department and state attorneys general allege that Google has paid Apple and smartphone makers including Samsung Electronics Co. billions of dollars in revenue-sharing agreements to keep rival search engines from gaining users.
The deals offer a percentage of the revenue Google makes from search-based advertising in exchange for being the default tool on browsers and smartphones.
Joan Braddi, Google’s vice president for product partnerships and the key negotiator of the Apple agreement, was one one of the executives copied on Pichai’s emails.
Prosecutor Adam Severt also asked whether the benefits to Google search are worth the cost of propping up Apple, the company’s biggest rival in mobile operating system software.
Braddi negotiated Google’s original 2002 deal with Apple to make its search engine the default on the Mac’s Safari browser.
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