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Google Paid How Much to Be the Default Search Engine? (gizmodo.com)
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One executive revealed the number, and it's more than the GDP of Haiti.

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[-] luciole@beehaw.org 52 points 10 months ago

Yet, in a redacted copy of an internal email chain released on Friday, Jim Kolotouros, the vice president of Android Platform Partnerships, wrote: “Chrome exists to serve Google search, and if it cannot do that because it is regulated to be set by the user, the value of users using Chrome goes to almost zero (for me).”

So Chrome’s whole point is bringing users to Google Search… and Google Search's whole point is Google Ads. I’m Glad I use Firefox.

[-] sparky@lemmy.pt 6 points 10 months ago

And what does that make Android’s whole point? 😉

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