Google paid Apple $18 billion in 2021 to eliminate the default search engine in Safari, writes The New York Times.
This publication was reported by two sources familiar with the details of the deal. Previously, experts found that Google pays Apple from $18 to $20 billion a year.
$18 billion is 4.92% of Apple’s $365.8 billion revenue for 2021. This money is created for one reason: Apple does not create its own search engine.
Apple had planned to buy Bing or create its own search, but was concerned about competition from Google and losing the deal.
Google has been paying Apple since 2002, but the price for default search has increased significantly since the iPhone came out.
Additionally, Google was concerned about Spotlight in the early days of enabling the feature. Google even planned to create a Spotlight equivalent that could search for information among documents, messages and apps on the iPhone, but that idea was eventually scrapped. [The New York Times]
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