There is currently a legal dispute between Google and the US Department of Justice. This week there was a striking statement from the CEO of Mozilla. Their statements proved to be a powerful boost for Google’s defense.

Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker testified this week as part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit against tech giant Google. The whole thing is about whether Google Search has too dominant a market position and whether Google is abusing it. Her statement was positive news for Google’s lawyers.

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A key argument from Google is that its search engine is by far the best and that is why so many companies choose it as the default. In this case, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella even flatly admitted that Google search is superior to Bing’s search engine.

Now Baker’s statement has also been added. Firefox, Mozilla’s browser, once switched from Google to the Yahoo search engine as the standard. However, that didn’t turn out to be a good decision; Firefox is even said to have lost users. Because of its qualities, Mozilla has switched to Google again.

Baker thereby confirmed the defense’s position against Google. Its search engine is not mandatory or prescribed anywhere, companies simply choose the best that the market has to offer. This lawsuit is not the first of its kind that Google has faced. There were also some legal disputes with the EU.

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The contract between Mozilla and Yahoo would generally run for five years. Yahoo was willing to pay $375 million for it, a hundred million more than Google wanted to put on the table. The main arguments for Yahoo are less advertising and less data tracking for users, Baker explained.

According to her, Yahoo ultimately failed to deliver on these promises and the search experience for Firefox surfers deteriorated. Baker says she speaks from experience, having put it to the test herself.