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Google spends $10 billion a year to ensure it's your go-to online search engine, DOJ says (www.businessinsider.com)
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Google spends $10 billion a year to ensure it's your go-to online search engine, DOJ says::Google shells out billions to be the default search engine on Apple's smartphones and on web browsers such as Mozilla's Firefox, the DOJ said.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wish they'd spend that money on making it a really good search engine, but I guess that's too much to ask for.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or use that money not to steal our privacy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Stealing our privacy is where the money comes from.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But that sounds harder and less certain than paying bribes