Google Witness Spills How Much Apple Gets From Safari Search Revenue

“ Like the revenue share part itself , they are a commercially sensitive part of the financial full term of an agreement presently in outcome , ” said Google in afiling last week , hoping to keep the true issue sealed from the public ’s eye .

CEO Sundar Pichai testify in October that Google is not a monopoly in search , but is simplybetter than competitors . In contrast , Kevin Murphy , an economic science professor at the University of Chicago , revealed Google cough up more than a third of its ad revenue on Safari as part of a raft to be Apple ’s default hunt railway locomotive . The royal court learned in October that Google paid$26 billionto be the default search engine of multiple speech sound and web browser in 2021 , and$18 billionof that reportedly goes to Apple .

Last hebdomad ’s motor hotel filing from Google say the Department of Justice did not even wish to unseal this identification number . It seems Murphy , who was called by Google to defend the billion - dollar search agreements , may have just let this one shimmy . Murphy claim these understanding were normal , competitive behavior in the lookup manufacture .

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“ The defrayal that Google make reflect that competition , ” said Murphy , according toReuters .

It ’s well known that Google and Apple portion revenue , but not in this much detail . In Pichai ’s testimony , he said the search engine has judge to give users a “ unlined and easy ” experience , even if that meant paying outrageous fees to do so . royal court document revealed this month showthe 20 queriesGoogle make the most revenue on , admit “ iPhone , ” “ Auto indemnity , ” “ Hulu , ” and “ AARP . ”

Google is giving up a peck more sensitive entropy than it would have liked to in this trial . In aMonday filing , Google bespeak that the transcript of two Google executives ’ testimony be part redacted , citing “ an inadvertent slip of the tongue ” pertaining to commercially raw information . The testimonies Google wants partially cast appear to be from Nov. 7 , the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. Google ’s VP of Travel Products Richard Holden and Google ’s VP of Global Partnerships Adrienne McCallister testified .

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