What’s at stake in the Google antitrust case? Billions of dollars (and the way we use the internet) | CNN Business

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Whenever you type a search into Apple’s Safari browser — say, on an iPhone — chances are it’s Google that returns the results.

You can tell Safari to pick another search engine, but in practice most people tend to stick with Google by default.

You might know that Google pays Apple enormous sums of money every year for that prime placement. What you might not know is just how much.

By May 2021, Google was paying Apple more than $1 billion a month, according to the US government, and as much

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