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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 44 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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you mean the Googlenet?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Goonet is where you find your goons in a cyberpunk setting

[–] [email protected] 28 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?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it is about time i made my own browser

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Step one, make your own browser

Step two, get millions of people to actually use it.

Step three sell enough marketing data and ads that you don't need any additional money incoming.

Then Google will pay you to be the primary search engine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Google: The Evil Empire

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.