Google paid Apple $1 billion to keep search on iPhone
Google paid Apple $1 billion in 2014 to keep its search function the default option on iOS devices.
A transcript of court proceedings from a copyright lawsuit against Google allegedly contains reference to a deal between the Silicon Valley firms.
The alleged agreement involves Google paying Apple a percentage of revenue - as much as 34% - gained through iOS devices.
Both companies declined to comment.
Bloomberg added that the referenced document has since been removed from the web.
.The court proceedings in question regard a lawsuit by Oracle Corp. in which the firm claims that Google used its Java software to develop Android but failed to pay for it.
Bad ads
Other details about how Google manages its services emerged this week - including the fact that the firm removed 780 million "bad" advertisements from its sites last year.
By bad, Google said it was referring to ads which linked to malware, promoted fake goods or covered up website content.
In a blog post, the company said it had more than 1,000 people within its organisation responsible for weeding out these ads and that the number that had to be removed was increasing.
Some figures published by Google on advertisements include:
- More than 17 million ads designed to trick or mislead people into clicking them removed
- 12.5 million ads blocked which violated Google's healthcare and medicine policy - such as ads for unapproved drugs
- More than 30,000 sites suspended for carrying misleading claims about weight loss programmes
- More than 10,000 sites and 18,000 accounts suspended for attempting to sell counterfeit goods
- More than 10,000 sites disabled for offering unwanted software