The idea is that without $20 billion or an incentive to send people to google Apple might have become interested in chipping away at the search business. Sori a

The idea is that without $20 billion or an incentive to send people to google Apple might have become interested in chipping away at the search business. Sori already handles a lot of search. Google didn't want Apple thinking about that. They wanted Apple to have an incentive to send traffic to google.