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Google paid $26 billion in 2021 to become default search engine on browsers and phones (www.cnbc.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] Masimatutu@lemm.ee 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It is just so depressing that no one seems to give a shit about them slowly claiming ownership of the entire internet

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you mean the Googlenet?

[–] optissima@possumpat.io 6 points 1 year ago

Goonet is where you find your goons in a cyberpunk setting

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year 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 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Cloudkid@lemmus.org 4 points 1 year ago

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