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Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere (www.theverge.com)
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[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] SandySocks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They had $256.74B in revenue that year, so I'm sure they more than made up for it.

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.