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No, however, tying Android to Google Search (even through a supposedly competitive market, where Google always wins a space, and Google makes money either way) is illegal.

Google can monetize Android pretty successfully through a way it already also does: Selling apps in the Play Store. And if Google was forced to divest Android, it is likely that is how the newly independent Android would fund itself.

In fact, if Google were forced to give up Android, the proposed search engine bidding process would work fairly: Google would have to compete and bid and pay to be listed just like everyone else.




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