Google is currently the subject of antitrust proceedings in the United States. As part of this procedure, testimonies come one after the other in order to assess whether the Tech giant is in a dominant position in the search engine market.
And in fact, one of them clearly did not go unnoticed this Monday in Washington. Kevin Murphy, professor at the University of Chicago, revealed a very informative figure: Google pays Apple 36% of the revenue it earns from advertising on searches carried out via the Safari browser.
A very informative trial on Google and… Apple
According to our colleagues atBloomberg, this data was supposed to remain confidential, and Google's main lawyer was very surprised that the academic mentioned it during his testimony.
As the American media points out, the Mountain View firm had explained before the trial that the disclosure of additional information on the agreement between the two companies“would unreasonably harm Google's competitive position relative to its competitors and other counterparties”.
Regardless, this trial turns outvery informative. Recall that Eddy Cue, executive vice president of Apple,has already come to testifyto evoke this agreement. He thus argued:“I always thought it was in Google's best interest, and ours, to do a deal. Certainly there was no viable alternative to Google at the time.”
Before adding:“We're making Google the default search engine because we've always thought it was the best. We choose the best and make it easy for users to change it”.
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