Google has long provided the default search engine in Safari, Apple's web browser, paying Apple a percentage of the revenue generated by Google searches originating on Apple iPhones, iPads ...
An Apple exec cited financial risk and potential privacy conflicts as reasons the company doesn't have its own search engine.
It would be very expensive; The recent and growing injection of AI into search has made the business more uncertain than ever ...
That would be very costly for Apple. In 2022 alone, Apple received $20 billion from Google to make its search engine the default on the Safari browser. According to Cue, eliminating that payment ...