Unintentional Reveal: Google Shares 36 Percent of Search Engine Revenue From Safari Browser With Apple

The revelation comes as part of a DOJ antitrust lawsuit against Google accusing the tech giant of using anticompetitive practices to monopolize markets.

A 3D printed Google logo placed on the Apple Macbook in a photo illustration on April 12, 2020. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters

Google shares more than a third of its revenue generated via the Safari browser with Apple as part of a deal that makes Google the default search engine on the browser.

Since 2002, both Google and Apple have maintained an agreement according to which Google is set as the default search engine on Apple’s Safari. The exact details of the revenue-sharing agreement have largely remained confidential. On Monday, Kevin Murphy, a University of Chicago professor and the main economics expert at Google owner Alphabet Inc., spilled the secret.