Editing Google Search (section)

===Payments to Apple===
In a November 2023 disclosure, during the ongoing antitrust trial against Google, an economics professor at the [[University of Chicago]] revealed that Google pays Apple 36% of all search advertising revenue generated when users access Google through the Safari browser. This revelation reportedly caused Google's lead attorney to cringe visibly.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} The revenue generated from Safari users has been kept confidential, but the 36% figure suggests that it is likely in the tens of billions of dollars.

Both Apple and Google have argued that disclosing the specific terms of their search default agreement would harm their competitive positions. However, the court ruled that the information was relevant to the antitrust case and ordered its disclosure. This revelation has raised concerns about the dominance of Google in the search engine market and the potential anticompetitive effects of its agreements with Apple.<ref>{{cite news |last=Nylen |first=Leah |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-13/apple-gets-36-of-google-revenue-from-search-deal-witness-says |title=Apple Gets 36% of Google Revenue in Search Deal, Expert Says |work=Bloomberg News |date=2023-11-13 |accessdate=2023-11-14 }}</ref>