Alphabet's CEO said the DOJ antitrust remedies could dismantle Search, threaten privacy, and reshape how billions interact with the web.

Sundar Pichai testified in the remedies trial that will determine the penalties Google will face for monopolizing the search engine market.

Google now has to defend itself against a breakup of its online ad business while fighting a separate attempt by the federal government to force an unraveling of its online search empire.

In a hearing on Friday, lawyers for the Justice Depart. indicated the government would double down on its requests to break up the tech giant’s business.

The US Justice Department asked a federal judge on Friday to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell key parts of its advertising technology and share realtime data with competitors to address a ruling that the technology giant illegally monopolizes much of the market for placing ads around the web.