We face a competitive environment, says Google CEO

San Francisco: Even as scrutiny of Google’s dominance on Internet search intensifies, the CEO of the company, Sundar Pichai, has said that it faces a competitive environment.

In an earning call with analysts on Thursday, Pichai said that the company is confident about the benefits it brings to its users and that it will make its case.

The comments come in the backdrop of the landmark antitrust lawsuit that the US Justice Department brought against Google, alleging that both advertisers and people are harmed by the tech giant’s position as “the unchallenged gateway to the Internet for billions of users worldwide.”

Earlier this week, the Senate Commerce Committee grilled the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google over proposed changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.