Bing makes more money for Apple than Microsoft, claims company executive

There is a rather important — and potentially game changing — case going on in the US. The case is between Google and the US Justice Department but it involves Apple, Microsoft and a lot of other biggies. The US is arguing that Google has made it impossible for other search engines to survive because it has made deals with companies like Apple, Mozilla and others. In other words, dominating the market using ‘unfair’ means and hence the antitrust case. One of the other search engines is Microsoft’s Bing. A big reason why the antitrust case has been filed is Apple using Google Search as default on iPhones. Google pays Apple an undisclosed sum — estimated to be close to $20 billion — a year for that. Apple does give users the option to change the default search engine to Microsoft Bing or a few other options.

According to a report by Bloomberg, Mikhail Parakhin, head of Microsoft’s advertising and web services, was called to testify in the case.