“Each search helped Google make more advertising money than rivals and gave it more data to improve its ability to accurately field queries. It also gave Apple billions of reasons not to develop its own search engine.”
– Journalists
Tripp Mickle and
Cecilia Kang, on the absurd economics underlying an antitrust ruling that allows Google to keep paying Apple $20 billion annually to be the default iPhone search engine—effectively paying a competitor not to compete. Google will maintain its search monopoly ”largely without interruption,” they write.
