That puts me in mind of Google paying Apple billions per year to have Google as the default search engine and (maybe more importantly) discourage Apple from building their own search engine.

Knowing what we know today, probably a good choice as search engines themselves are quickly getting less usage due to AIs. (I for one would never have predicted there would be something that could replace search engines, but then I also thought Facebook was here to stay forever for everyone. Happy to be wrong)