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Google testimony confirms paying billions to lock in default search engine status

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Tags: google, lawsuits, legal, antitrust, search engines, business, contracts, author.ashley belanger, source.ars technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/google-paid-26b-for-default-contracts-in-2021-google-exec-testified/

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Title
Google paid $26B for default contracts in 2021, Google exec testified
Authors
Ashley Belanger
Published
Oct 27 2023
Word count
577 words

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    My immediate concern was this was money sent to Firefox which I think would actually be good since Firefox is a viable alternative to Chrome, but it looks like that money went to Apple to convince...

    My immediate concern was this was money sent to Firefox which I think would actually be good since Firefox is a viable alternative to Chrome, but it looks like that money went to Apple to convince them not to build their own search engine which would be bad because that means we didn’t get an Apple alternative to google search.

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