Google paid Apple $26.3b to be default search engine in Safari in 2021, it was just $20b in 2022
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New court documents filed in the ongoing antitrust lawsuit against Google reveal a decline in Google’s payments to Apple for keeping it the default search engine on Safari. In 2022, Google paid Apple $20 billion for this privilege, down from $26.3 billion in 2021. This information is important because the Department of Justice (DOJ) argues that […]

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