Google must limit default contracts to one year, judge rules

Alphabet Inc.’s Google must renegotiate any contract to make its search engine or artificial intelligence app the default for ...
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Google hit with major blow as judge forces annual renegotiation of Apple and Samsung default deals: Report

While Google can continue to offer iPhone maker Apple its products and pay Samsung for default placement, these contracts ...
New York Post

Google paid $26B to be default search engine, exec testifies in antitrust trial

Alphabet’s Google paid $26.3 billion to other companies in 2021 to ensure its search engine was the default on web browsers and mobile phones, a top company executive testified during the Justice ...
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Why default settings are important to a search engine’s success

It was declared the winner of the search-engine wars way back in 1998. Fortune magazine said the company was poised for much bigger things. That company was, actually, Yahoo. As it turned out, that ...
Yahoo

You can now set ChatGPT as your default search engine on iPhone – here's how

If you’re constantly consulting ChatGPT, you’ll be happy to learn that you can now use the AI as your main search engine on Safari for iPhone. After tweaking some settings (more on that below), you ...
Yahoo

Google CEO acknowledges importance of being default search engine in US trial

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday acknowledged the importance of making its search engine the default in keeping users loyal -- a key point in a once-in-a generation U.S.
Forbes

Google CEO Defends Deals Making Google The Default Search Engine

Google chief executive Sundar Pichai defended his company’s practice of paying other companies to make Google the default search engine on their devices on Monday, amid a landmark antitrust trial ...
Engadget

Google paid $26 billion in 2021 for default search engine status

Vice president Prabhakar Raghavan testified Friday that Google paid $26.3 billion in 2021 for the purpose of maintaining default search engine status and acquiring traffic, Bloomberg reports. It's ...
ZDNet

You can make ChatGPT your default search engine in Chrome. Here's how

The biggest benefit of using an AI chatbot is being able to input and receive conversational queries. Combine that with real-time access to the Internet, and you have a more efficient search engine.
Android Authority

Circle to Search won't work if Google isn't your default assistant (Update)

A teardown of the Google app suggests that Circle to Search won’t work if Google isn’t your default assistant app. This is an obvious limitation but still disappointing if you’re using an alternative ...
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Google paid $26.3B to be default search engine: report

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (GOOGL) paid $26.3B in 2021 to ensure its search engine was the default on web browsers and mobile phones, Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president of search at the tech giant, ...