A court filing in the Google monopoly case reveals Apple's lack of appetite for building a search engine or entering the search text ad market.

If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. Apple's SVP of Services, Eddy Cue, confirmed that the company does not plan to create a search engine in a declaration filed with a US federal court this week.

Apple is seeking to defend its deal with Google, which provides revenue sharing through Search. This comes after the DOJ threatened to break up Google's business after a court found that it holds an illegal monopoly.