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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by paulpan on Monday April 17, 2023 @01:38PM (#35603937)
The frenemy status of Google-Samsung is once again on display. Samsung probably hasn't been happy with the Google's continued Pixel phone push :p

But why is Google paying Apple to be the default search engine on iOS devices?

It seems a waste of money as Apple would be stupid to default to any other search engine given the lower search quality results. End users would notice if there was a result degradation and likely switch their default. Google seems to be playing the "Intel Inside" part without reaping the marketing benefits and only paying the traffic acquisition costs.

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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by Sai_ on Monday April 17, 2023 @01:43PM (#35604006)
Apple may not consider any other default search engine only in the absence of a search engine other than google offering a pot of money to be the default search engine.
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by bushbaba on Monday April 17, 2023 @02:15PM (#35604401)
Or they’d ask users which search engine they’d prefer. Likely a non small amount would prefer chat-Bing just to try it out
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by bryanrasmussen on Monday April 17, 2023 @02:01PM (#35604240)
so without a default search engine what happens when you type some words in the address bar like every user has been trained to do?
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:30PM (#35609642)
The first time, you're presented with a prompt to choose your default search engine.
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by tadfisher on Monday April 17, 2023 @04:13PM (#35605941)
If Samsung really wasn't happy, they wouldn't be manufacturing Google's phones and providing custom silicon. I think the Pixel phones are a blip on Samsung's radar in terms of competition.
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by w0m on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @12:46PM (#35616435)
Samsung also tried to push their own mobile OS for a long while after android become dominant. Samsung is large enough that it's hard to tell overarching strategy though.
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by carlosjobim on Monday April 17, 2023 @07:47PM (#35608173)
Apple could spin up a better search engine than Google in a swirley. The big question is why haven't they!?
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by SSLy on Monday April 17, 2023 @08:09PM (#35608338)
They already have one -- it's the iOS spotlight Web search
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by eric_cc on Monday April 17, 2023 @08:57PM (#35608679)
> in a swirley

What does this even mean?

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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:32PM (#35609658)
Because they can't do it "in a swirly." It took them many years and a tremendous amount of money for Apple Maps to not be laughably bad.

They can absolutely build a solid search engine with enough money and time, but what would be gained? It's better to just collect Google's checks.

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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by carlosjobim on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @09:44AM (#35613917)
Why can't they do it? A tiny boot strapped company like Kagi has already made a much better search engine than Google. Are no good engineers working at Apple, or what is missing in the equation?

> but what would be gained?

People needing to buy an Apple device to reap the benefits of the internet, as Google continues to sink into their SEO-optimized malware swamp.

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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by mensetmanusman on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:47PM (#35609753)
Siri can’t even find anything useful on my phone…
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Re:Google in shock as Samsung considers moving to Bing as de... by vitorgrs on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:55PM (#35609791)
You realize that before google paid, microsoft actually did it and bing was used in Siri even, right?
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