Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, took the stand on Wednesday during the remedies phase of the company’s search antitrust trial, and offered a simple message. The US government’s plan to rectify Google’s search monopoly, he said, would be so crushing to Google Search that it might be hard to justify continuing to build a search engine at all.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai cautioned that the US Department of Justice's antitrust remedies could jeopardize Google Search, potentially leading the company to discontinue its flagship product. Pichai argued that the DOJ's proposal to share Google's search index with competitors at minimal cost would stifle innovation.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai tried to convince a federal judge on Wednesday that the Justice Department’s proposed plan to break up its search monopoly would have “many unintended consequences.” The DOJ has asked US District Judge Amit Mehta to approve several remedies,