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Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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Hopefully the antitrust trial will end up telling Google they cannot pay anybody for preference of their browser. That would be the best outcome.
The MO of current "market leaders" is not to compete but gatekeep.