UK regulators take aim at Apple's deal with Google to make it the default search engine on Safari

• Google's payments to Apple to be the default search engine on Apple's Safari web browser create "a significant barrier to entry and expansion" for Google's rivals in the search engine market, the UK markets regulator said in a report released on Wednesday.
• Enforcement authorities should be given a range of options to address the issue, the report said, including letting users decide which search engine to set as a default during device setup or restricting Apple's ability to monetize default positions.
• The report found that Apple received the "substantial majority" of the 1.2 billion pounds ($1.5 billion) that Google paid to be the default search engine on a variety of devices in the United Kingdom in 2019.
• Apple told the regulators that monetization restrictions would be "very costly," according to the report.
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The payments by Alphabet Inc's Google to Apple to be the default search engine on Apple's Safari web browser create "a significant barrier to entry and expansion" for Google's rivals in the search engine market, the UK markets regulator said in a report released on Wednesday.

Apple received the "substantial majority" of the 1.2 billion pounds ($1.5 billion) that Google paid to be the default search engine on a variety of devices in the United Kingdom in 2019, according to the report.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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