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Re:Apple attempting to stop investigation into its practices... by TimCTRL on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @05:59AM (#34502100)
I have a naive question..what would happen if google simply stopped paying this money, and let the user decide?...I guess it wouldn't affect them much, google is still the best search engine.
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Re:Apple attempting to stop investigation into its practices... by carlhjerpe on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @06:04AM (#34502128)
Except Google rarely/barely is the best search engine anymore.
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Re:Apple attempting to stop investigation into its practices... by yreg on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @06:10AM (#34502163)
Bing was the default 2012 - 2017. Apparently Google found that it is well worth it to them to pay these massive amounts.
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Re:Apple attempting to stop investigation into its practices... by pasc1878 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @08:00AM (#34503038)
Google is worried that Apple would then release a search engine and that would be worse for them than the somple payment.
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