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Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal

Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal

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Google’s default search deal with Apple is worth so much to the search giant that Google pays 36 percent of its search advertising revenue from Safari to keep its search engine set as the default in Apple’s browser, Bloomberg reported.

Google and Apple objected to making this key detail public from their long-running default search deal. But their closely held secret came out on Monday during testimony from Google’s main economics expert, Kevin Murphy, during the Department of Justice’s monopoly trial examining Google’s search business.

“Probably the biggest slip of the entire trial,” Big Tech on Trial, an account dedicated to providing updates from the Google trial, posted on X (formerly Twitter).

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Author: Ashley Belanger. [Source Link (*), Ars Technica – All content]

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