Google ‘paid Apple $1bn to keep search bar default’
According to court documents — since removed from the internet — from an ongoing lawsuit against Google by software firm Oracle, a deal was allegedly put in place between the two Silicon Valley firms that also saw Google pay Apple a percentage of revenue from traffic made on Apple’s mobile devices.
However Bloomberg, who first reported the story, said the court transcript referencing the deal has since “vanished without a trace from electronic court records”.
