No money coming to Apple could have other effects, like more aggressive anonymization of search data, or even caching on Apple’s side, or any other technical se

No money coming to Apple could have other effects, like more aggressive anonymization of search data, or even caching on Apple’s side, or any other technical setup that their contract prevents them from doing now. Also Google is not the best engine everywhere nor for everyone. I think a sign of this is if it was that simple Google wouldn’t be paying that much in the first place.