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Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere
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this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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Makes you wonder if they just stopped paying they'd have 23 billion more and I wonder what they'd lose in market share. If it is less than 23 bil it makes sense to just not pay.
Good question, but I guess it's all speculative anyways