A sign is pictured outside a Google office near the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., May 8, 2019.
The amount of payments Google made for the default status has more than tripled since 2014, according to senior executive Prabhakar Raghavan who is responsible for both search and advertising, the report added.
Google's revenue from search advertising came in at $146.4 billion in 2021, while the payments for the default setting were its biggest cost, Raghavan was mentioned as saying in the Bloomberg report.
The company has argued the revenue share agreements are legal and that it has invested to keep its search and advertising businesses competitive.
Google had objected to revealing the numbers, saying they would harm the company's ability to negotiate contracts in the future.
Persons:
Paresh Dave, Prabhakar Raghavan, Raghavan, Judge Amit Mehta, Jaspreet Singh, Shailesh
Organizations:
REUTERS, Google, Justice, Bloomberg, Reuters, Thomson
Locations:
Mountain View , California, U.S, Bengaluru