“I don’t believe you have a factual basis to ... suggest there was a causal connection” between Google’s multibillion-dollar deal and Apple not developing a competing search engine, says Schmidtlein — and Google is still going to get the most traffic on Apple’s Safari browser even if it’s competing for placement on a non-exclusive basis. Yahoo catches a stray here: “Yahoo can’t even keep its own users” using its search engine, he says.