Google Paid $26 BILLION to Become Default Search Engine on Most Devices

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The search department’s 2021 revenue was over $146 billion, while the costs to acquire traffic was only $26 billion.

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Published Oct. 27 2023 6:11PM EDT

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Google paid $26.3 billion in 2021 to become the default search engine on mobile and web browsers, according to Friday testimony from the company’s vice president, Prabhakar Raghavan, in the US v.

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Google Paid $26 BILLION to Become Default Search Engine on Most Devices

The search department’s 2021 revenue was over $146 billion, while the costs to acquire traffic was only $26 billion.

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