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Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere
(www.theverge.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I only use Google if DDG can't find what I'm looking for. Usually Google doesn't either if DDG can't so lately I've been giving up after the DDG results. I can't stand Google anymore. The first page of results is just ads and the next page is all irrelevant nonsense.