The US v. Google antitrust trial is about many issues, however greater than something, it’s concerning the energy of defaults. Even when it’s simple to modify browsers or platforms or search engines like google, the one which seems whenever you flip it on issues quite a bit. Google clearly agrees and has paid a staggering quantity to verify it’s the default: testimony within the trial revealed that Google spent a complete of $26.three billion in 2021 to be the default search engine in a number of browsers, telephones, and platforms.
That quantity, the sum complete of all of Google’s search distribution offers, got here out in the course of the Justice Division’s cross-examination of Google’s search head, Prabhakar Raghavan. It was made public after a debate earlier within the week between the 2 sides and…
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