Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., left, exits federal court in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, April 30, 2025. Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai testified in federal court Wednesday that a Justice Department proposal that would force Google to share its search data, including with competitors, would be a “de facto divestiture” of the company’s search engine that took decades of investment and innovation to build.
He called the DOJ’s proposal “so far reaching, so extraordinary” that it feels as though the government is asking for a sell-off of