Google pays Apple about Rs 1,500 crore per year to do this

Google breaks banks every year to pay a hefty sum of $18 billion, roughly about Rs 1,500 crores, to be the default search engine in Apple’s Safari browser on Macs, iPads, and iPhones. This comes after the ongoing US vs Google trial, and several secrets have been uncovered during the trial.

As Google pays Apple every year to remain the default search engine has been a puzzle or guess game around us, with figures varying from maybe as low as $10 billion and as high as $20 billion. A report from The New York Times has emerged putting an end to all guesses: it mentions that Google paid Apple around $18 billion in 2021.