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Google Paid How Much to Be the Default Search Engine?
(gizmodo.com)
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this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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5.25 billion smartphone users, so they are paying about $5 per user. If you switch the default from Google, you are taking $5 from them!
TBH, 26.3 billion dollars are just a drop in the bucket for Google. That bucket of course filled with the money they got with industrial scale spying, cross-site tracking, denial of control, forced ads, destruction of competition, among countless dirty tricks they play on regular netizens.
They made a $40b profit last year. More than half their profits is a "drop in the bucket"?!
I actually use Bing so that I get Microsoft Rewards points, meaning I gain money by not using Google.
But I understand privacy homies going DuckDuckGo or something else.