Google: US fix a de facto divestiture of Search

Alphabet Inc. chief executive Sundar Pichai told a judge who found that Google illegally monopolizes online search, that a Justice Department proposal to share search data with rivals would be a "de facto" divestiture of the company's search engine.

- Bloomberg

If Google were required to share its search data and information on how it ranks results, rivals could reverse engineer "every aspect of our technology," Pichai testified. "The proposal on data sharing is so far reaching, so extraordinary." It "feels like de facto divestiture of search" and entire intellectual property and technology over 25 years of research, he said.