Google reportedly paid Apple a whopping $18 billion in one year to keep its search engine the default on iPhones

• Google paid Apple $18 billion in 2021 to remain the default search engine on iPhone, NYT reports.
• Google spent $26 billion in total in 2021 on similar deals with device makers, an ongoing court case revealed.
• The US Justice Department is suing Google over accusations that it's acted as a monopoly. 

A much-watched trial between Google and the Justice Department is pulling back the layers of the relationship between Google and Apple — and how it evolved over time.