Do you know that (1) over 50% of the Google search enterprise goes by way of an Apple machine and (2) Google additionally offers Apple a share of the Chrome iOS (and Mac) income as properly?
Danny Goodwin at Search Engine Land coated a report from The Register that claims each these nuggets, plus extra.
A courtroom doc (PDF right here) says “Greater than half (50%) of Google’s search enterprise was performed by way of use of Apple units.” That is in part 19 and web page 4 of this doc.
He additionally notes that on web page 356 of this report (PDF right here) says “Google pays Apple a share of the search income it earns from browser visitors on iOS within the following contexts: in return for being the default search supplier on Safari, Google pays Apple a share of income derived from Safari search visitors; and pursuant to varied industrial preparations, Google pays Apple a share of income derived from [redacted] search visitors.”
The redacted half is supposedly Chrome.
It simply exhibits how delicate the connection between Google and Apple has been for thus a few years.
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