Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere
www.theverge.com
Default search status doesn’t come cheap, but it’s worth it to Google.
  • @RedditWanderer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3•8 months ago

    And how much money did google make off of our collective data/ads by being the default engine? That’s the real question

      • @RedditWanderer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•8 months ago

        If only people understood money like they understood time, they’d see how absurd of a number that is and billionaires wouldn’t exist.

        256 thousand seconds is about 3 days

        256 million seconds is about 8 years.

        256 billion seconds is 8,126 years.