Antonio Rangel took the stand for the second day and said Google has leaned heavily on default settings to keep users hooked on its search engine and other lucrative services.
Google fought hard to be the default search engine on smartphones and browsers so it “can manipulate your choices,” an expert on human behavior testified for the government at the closely watched antitrust trial Thursday.
“Search engine defaults generate a sizable and robust bias towards the default,” Rangel said. “Defaults have a powerful impact on consumer decisions.” Rangel cited a 2015 email in which a Google employee warned that the loss of default status on Apple’s Safari browser would be a “code red” for the company.
The Justice Department is arguing in a trial that began on Tuesday that the Alphabet unit sought agreements with mobile carriers to win powerful default positions on smartphones to dominate search. For instance, users with Verizon Blackberries and Bing as their default search engine purportedly still used Google 91% of the time.
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