Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search engine in 2021

Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by detaro on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:34AM (#28316241)

To me that page always reads as if it tries to play up their own contribution, which until there is more detail makes me suspicious if the main results are meaningfully influenced by them, or if it's "just" infoboxes etc.

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Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by selykg on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:41AM (#28316351)

Maybe, but I also think basically saying "well, it just spits out Bing results" is over simplifying. There's probably somewhere in the middle, as I said, I suspect Bing results are a pretty large chunk of it but I also try not to just hyperbolically state things ya know?

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Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by detaro on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:44AM (#28316399)

I don't believe "it's bing results with added extras around them" is hyperbolical, given how similar DDG and Bing results look everytime I try it. If it's wrong, DDG would IMHO do themselves a favor by sharing more details here.

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Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by thoughtstheseus on Thursday August 26, 2021 @07:15PM (#28322232)

Surely someone out there has a paper on comparative search engine results.

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