Google’s antitrust trial revealed the multi-billion dollar tech company paid out a whopping total of $26.3 billion in 2021 to keep its status as the default search engine on phones and multiple browsers, Bloomberg Law reported Friday. The Justice Department argued that by spending an exorbitant amount of money to retain its default status, Google … Read more
Image: BongkarnGraphic (Shutterstock) How much is it worth to be the iPhone’s default search engine? Somewhere between $18 and $20 billion a year. According to a Bernstein analyst, that’s how much Google is paying Apple to keep its top spot, representing roughly 15% of the iPhone maker’s annual operating profits. No Google AI Search, I … Read more
Picture: Serhii Yevdokymov / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) As Google confronted off in opposition to the Division of Justice on the primary day of a hotly anticipated antitrust trial, firm lawyer John Schmidtlein laid out an attention-grabbing perspective. “This case is admittedly all about Microsoft,” Schmidtlein stated. For those who can identify one search engine aside from … Read more