Google Paid Apple $1B to Keep Search Bar on iPhone
Google also used to pay Mozilla to be the search engine there, until Yahoo outbid them.<p>It's amazing that Google search, which is quite useful, has negative market value as content.  In the cable TV world, there are channels cable systems pay to carry, such as ESPN, and channels that pay to be carried, such as the Jewelry Channel.  How did Google end up in the latter category?