True cost of Google's default payoffs is $26 billion - and rising
The cost at the centre of the antitrust case has been revealed by a Google executive - and it's mind-blowing
Leah Nylen at Bloomberg has just dropped a story showing how Google paid $26.3 billion to other companies - mainly Apple - to be the search default on web browsers and phones.
The payoffs are the centrepiece of the US Government’s case that Google bought its dominance in the search advertising market to the detriment of rivals.
The price Google paid “more…
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