In the ongoing antitrust showdown between the U.S. government and Google, Judge Mehta critically assesses the government's position on competition in search engines. He challenges the inconsistency of the government's argument that AI companies should be considered competitors to Google, given that they previously excluded similar services to prove Google's dominance. The government argues for a broader definition of competition, while Mehta suggests that the criteria for a general search engine may need reevaluation. This highlights the complexities of defining competition in the modern digital landscape.
Mehta points out a contradiction: the government wanted to exclude a bunch of other search-engine-like services to establish Google had no meaningful search competitors during the liability trial, and now it wants to add new ones during remedies. "I'm not sure it quite fits," Mehta says.
I don't think they're interested in competing as a search engine qua search engine," he says, elaborating. They "want to have better grounding in search" to have the best model in the world.
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