Alphabet Inc's Google pays billions of dollars each year to Apple Inc, Samsung Electronics Co, and other telecom giants to illegally dominate as the default search engine, the U.S. Justice Department alleged, the Wall Street Journal reports. Google spent "enormous numbers" as the default search engine on most browsers and all U.S. mobile phones, DOJ attorney Kenneth Dintzer told Judge Amit Mehta during a hearing in Washington. The state attorneys general pursued a parallel antitrust suit against the search giant, pending before Mehta. Google voiced competition from dozens of other companies beyond Microsoft Corp's Bing and DuckDuckGo. Its rivals also included ByteDance Ltd's TikTok, Meta Platforms Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Grubhub Inc, and additional sites. All parties agreed that new data on user search queries is key to a search engine's success. Google controls the most popular browser, Chrome, and Android's second-most popular mobile operating system. Dintzer focused on Google's se...