Google paid $26 billion in 2021 to become default search engine on browsers and phones
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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Do you mean the Googlenet?
Goonet is where you find your goons in a cyberpunk setting
Remember when their motto was "don't be evil" and then they gave it up because they decided being evil was more lucrative?
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.
What a bunch of dumbasses. They were already the default on most everything, so they basically paid $26 billion for nothing.
Google isn't paying that $26 B cause it want to, but because it knows Microsoft isn't going to pay that much.