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- At the ongoing Justice Department antitrust trial, a defendant revealed Apple’s search revenue share with Google.
- Apparently, Apple makes as much as 36% of all ad-tracking revenue through Google Search on the mobile version of Safari.
- That is likely billions of dollars each year, making Apple’s stances on user privacy sound hypocritical.
The US Department of Justice is in the middle of an antitrust lawsuit against Google. The Justice Department accuses Google of using anti-competitive practices to keep its dominance in the search and advertising markets.
On the stand today (via Bloomberg), an economics expert working for Google, Kevin Murphy, disclosed that Apple and Google have a revenue share agreement for Google Search remaining the default search engine on the mobile version of Safari, which appears on the iPhone. This agreement nets Apple as much as 36% of revenue from searches conducted in Safari, which is likely billions of dollars each year.