Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere
Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere Illustration by Cath Virginia / The VergeThe US v. Google antitrust trial is about many things, but more than anything, it’s about the power of defaults. Even if it’s easy to switch browsers or platforms or search engines, the one that appears when you turn it on matters a lot. Google obviously agrees and has paid a staggering amount to make sur...