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There are a billion reasons Google is the default search engine on your iPhone.
Google allegedly paid its rival Apple $1 billion in 2014 in an agreement that keeps its search bar on the iPhone ? the arch rival to Google?s Android devices.
The two tech giants have a revenue-sharing agreement that give Apple a cut of the money Google makes from traffic on the iPhone, according to court transcripts obtained by Bloomberg.
In return, Apple has made Google the default search engine built into the phone. If a user would prefer to use Bing, Yahoo or DuckDuckGo while surfing Safari, he or she must manually change the choice in the phone?s settings.
The agreement was revealed in Jan. 14 courtroom proceedings from tech firm Oracle?s lawsuit against the search engine company, which alleges that Google developed its Android phones with Oracle?s software.
During the hearing, a Google witness said, ?at one point in time the revenue share was 34%.?
It?s not clear if that percentage was the amount Google paid to Apple or the amount of revenue it kept for itself.
Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...illion-iphone-search-engine-article-1.2505944
Google allegedly paid its rival Apple $1 billion in 2014 in an agreement that keeps its search bar on the iPhone ? the arch rival to Google?s Android devices.
The two tech giants have a revenue-sharing agreement that give Apple a cut of the money Google makes from traffic on the iPhone, according to court transcripts obtained by Bloomberg.
In return, Apple has made Google the default search engine built into the phone. If a user would prefer to use Bing, Yahoo or DuckDuckGo while surfing Safari, he or she must manually change the choice in the phone?s settings.
The agreement was revealed in Jan. 14 courtroom proceedings from tech firm Oracle?s lawsuit against the search engine company, which alleges that Google developed its Android phones with Oracle?s software.
During the hearing, a Google witness said, ?at one point in time the revenue share was 34%.?
It?s not clear if that percentage was the amount Google paid to Apple or the amount of revenue it kept for itself.
Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...illion-iphone-search-engine-article-1.2505944
