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Any day now, a federal judge is expected to issue a landmark ruling that could upend some of the most lucrative deals in Silicon Valley: Google's default search contracts .
At stake is more than $26 billion a year, $20 billion of which goes to Apple . That's nearly a quarter of Alphabet's operating income.
For decades, the Apple-Google pact has helped determine who controls the internet, which is exactly why it's now in the crosshairs.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled last year that Google held a monopoly in search and ads. He's been weighing remedies since the final phase of the trial wrapped in May, with a separate case on Google's ad business set to begin next month under a different judg