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00:00 When an iPhone, Samsung or Mozilla user opens their browser, the Google search engine appears
00:06 by default, without the consumer choosing to use it. This is due to deals Google signed
00:11 with Apple and device manufacturers to be the default browser, costing between $18-20
00:17 billion per year.
00:20 The Justice Department is launching a legal battle to prove that Google's 90% market
00:24 share is due to an illegal monopoly of the market.
00:28 Google operates the largest search engine in the United States. Its brand name has become
00:33 so ubiquitous that dictionaries recognize it as a verb.
00:38 Federal lawyers and state attorneys general will have to answer the following question
00:42 - does Google owe the success of its search engine to its performance or to anti-competitive
00:47 practices?
00:48 Google and parent company Alphabet's top executives are expected to testify.
00:54 The giant defended itself in an article published last week stating other rival search engines
00:59 like Bing and Yahoo also pay Apple to be featured in Safari.
01:04 People don't use Google because they have no choice, but because they want to. It's
01:08 easy to change the default search engine. On an iPhone, it takes four taps. We're no
01:13 longer in the age of CD-ROMs.
01:16 The stakes are high for the tech giant. If it loses the trial, Google could be forced
01:21 to change its methods or even its entire business model. Advertising revenues from search results
01:28 account for nearly 60% of the group's income. The company's partners could also pay the
01:34 price.
01:35 According to the New York Times, Apple's contract with Google represents up to one-fifth of
01:39 its revenue each year.