UK regulators question Google`s default search engine payments to Apple
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They say paying to be the default search engine creates `a significant barrier to entry and expansion.` What you need to know UK regulators have questioned Google`s payments to Apple. It gave Apple $1.5 billion in 2019 to be the default search engine on UK devices. Regulators say this creates a `significant` barrier to the competition. UK market regulators have questioned Google`s payments made to Apple so it could be the default search engine on devices in the UK, stating they create a significant barrier to competition. As Reuters reports: The payments by Alphabet Inc`s Google to Apple Inc 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. According to the report, Apple received a `substantial majority` of the $1.5 billion Google paid to be the default search engine on devices in the UK in 20...