Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere
Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere
www.theverge.com Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere
Default search status doesn’t come cheap, but it’s worth it to Google.
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And how much money did google make off of our collective data/ads by being the default engine? That's the real question
They had $256.74B in revenue that year, so I'm sure they more than made up for it.
If only people understood money like they understood time, they'd see how absurd of a number that is and billionaires wouldn't exist.
256 thousand seconds is about 3 days
256 million seconds is about 8 years.
256 billion seconds is 8,126 years.