Re:DDG founder says Google's phone, manufacturing partnershi...
by jsnell on Friday November 24, 2023 @08:37AM
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> Also, is it confirmed anyehere that DDG pays Apple, or is this just conjecture?
It came out during the trial, in Weinberg's testimony. They pay Apple a revenue share for all searches done via the Safari search integration if the search engine is set to DDG.
As far as I know, none of this was even conjectured before that testimony. That he is so happy paying a revshare to Apple is pretty surprising given how vehement DDG was about the original Android search engine choice screen in the EU.
It came out during the trial, in Weinberg's testimony. They pay Apple a revenue share for all searches done via the Safari search integration if the search engine is set to DDG.
As far as I know, none of this was even conjectured before that testimony. That he is so happy paying a revshare to Apple is pretty surprising given how vehement DDG was about the original Android search engine choice screen in the EU.