Google’s antitrust showdown

The U.S. Justice Department is taking Google to court over allegations that a secretive partnership worth billions of dollars in its massive search business freezes out competitors and violates antitrust laws

2005: Google makes deal with Apple to be default search engine on Apple’s Safari browser
  
Jan 2007: Apple unveils iPhone with Google search engine included in operating system

2014: Apple receives $1 billion from Google, according to court proceedings against Google

2018: Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook (above), chief executives of Google and Apple, meet to discuss how to increase revenue from searching

Oct 20, 2020: U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), backed by Attorneys General in 11 states, accuse Google of violating Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, illegally throttling competition to make Google Search default option on products used by millions of consumers

2022: Google’s search business generates more than half of its $279.8 billion revenue

Payments to Apple to be search engine of choice soar to estimated $18 billion per year

Sep 12, 2023: DoJ’s antitrust trial against Google to begin
                      
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