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Google May Be Paying Apple $9 Billion This Year to be the Default Search Engine on iOS

Google May Be Paying Apple $9 Billion This Year to be the Default Search Engine on iOS

Posted September 29, 2018 at 3:38am by iClarified
Google may be paying Apple around $9 billion this year to be the default search engine on iOS, says Goldman Sachs analyst Rod Hall via Business Insider.

In a note distributed to clients today, Hall says the payments Google is making to Apple could be bigger than anyone thinks. He estimates that Google will pay Apple $9 billion this year and $12 billion in 2019.

"We believe this revenue is charged ratably based on the number of searches that users on Apple's platform originate from Siri or within the Safari browser," Hall wrote. "We believe Apple is one of the biggest channels of traffic acquisition for Google."


Last year, Google reported that its traffic acquisition costs (TAC) had increased. In Q2 2017, the company paid out $5.09 billion in TAC fees. Some believe that the increase may have been due to renegotiation with Apple.

Goldman also suggests that TAC fees could account for about 24% of Apple's services business.

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Google May Be Paying Apple $9 Billion This Year to be the Default Search Engine on iOS
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ShadowOne
ShadowOne - September 30, 2018 at 3:51am
$9B down the drain. I don't even use Safari.
nocci
nocci - September 29, 2018 at 3:48am
Well what other choice is their other than the everyday search engine everyone like me uses?
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islamfarouk - September 29, 2018 at 1:30pm
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