Google spends $10 billion a year to ensure it's your go-to online search engine, DOJ says

• DOJ lawyers say Google is using deals with the likes of Apple to preserve its dominance over search.
• Google denied this, and said that Google search is simply better than the competition.
• The internet giant is being sued by the DOJ in the biggest tech antitrust trial in 20 years.

Google is paying $10 billion a year to Apple and other smartphone makers to keep its position as the world's biggest online search engine, the Department of Justice has said.

On the first day of the biggest tech antitrust trial in 20 years, lawyers for the DOJ said that Google had used agreements with the likes of Apple, Samsung, and Mozilla Firefox to make Google search the default on their smartphones and web browsers.