Google paid $26 billion in 2021 to become default search engine on browsers and phones::The number is a more granular look into how much Google pays partners, including Apple, to be the default search engine on their products.

  • Flying Squid
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    282 years ago

    Remember when their motto was “don’t be evil” and then they gave it up because they decided being evil was more lucrative?

  • @Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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    22 years ago

    What a bunch of dumbasses. They were already the default on most everything, so they basically paid $26 billion for nothing.

    • @Cloudkid@lemmus.org
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      42 years ago

      Google isn’t paying that $26 B cause it want to, but because it knows Microsoft isn’t going to pay that much.