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CTOnews.com, Nov. 14 (Xinhua)-- in theory, revenue-sharing should have been kept secret, but Google witnesses accidentally leaked the figure in an antitrust lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice.

According to an economic expert representing Apple, Google has to pay 36 per cent of the revenue to Apple, which includes all the revenue Google earns from search advertising on its Safari browser, including iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Google's lead lawyer "clearly flinched" when he released the revenue figures because they were supposed to be confidential, according to Bloomberg.

Last month, wealth manager Bernstein said Apple earns $18 billion a year from Google (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 1314-146 billion yuan), accounting for about 15% of Apple's annual operating profit.

Tu Yuan Pexels Google has been the default search engine for Apple devices since 2002, although the agreement between the two companies has been revised several times. Apple made a lot of money from the deal, and Google became the default search option on the world's most popular smartphone.

At present, the US Department of Justice is investigating Google, which they believe is suspected of a monopoly, and the for-profit search engine deal between Google and Apple has been the main focus of the legal battle and is expected to last until the end of November.

Last October, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, said the agreement between Apple and Google made it impossible for other search engines like Bing to compete. "you get up in the morning, brush your teeth, and then search on Google. The only way to change the way this habit is formed is to change the default settings."

Eddie Cue, Apple's head of services, testified at the trial last October that Google was the default search engine for iPhone because it was the best choice. "We made Google the default search engine because we always thought it was the best." In the absence of an "effective alternative", Apple has been unable to change this arrangement.

It is worth mentioning that while Google is the default search engine for Apple devices, users can also manually switch to engines such as Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo or Ecosia, but this requires access to the Safari browser settings interface.

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"Google CEO argues that paying to ensure that it becomes the default search engine is designed to provide users with a seamless experience."

"to keep the default search engine, Google reportedly paid Apple $18 billion in 2021."

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