How do I remove Bing as the default in Windows? As far as I can tell it is the only option.
Herer is the instructions for Edge. IE is similar.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028574/microsoft-edge-change-the-default-search-engine
How do I remove Bing as the default in Windows? As far as I can tell it is the only option.
It pays more because it makes more money. Simple.Yup, and google is now paying Apple 9 billion a year, up from the initial 1-2 billion. So on average, google pays Apple an extra $1 billion every year just for the privilege of accessing its users.
There's nothing suggesting that. Taking in consideration the way the negotiations were conducted I doubt any of the two companies had any major leverage over the other. Apple was just as interested to make the deal as Google was.Logic would suggest that Apple is actually gaining more leverage over google, rather than the other way round.
Well you don't have any clear proof for your claims. That's what I was pointing out.You don’t have to necessarily believe or like what I say.
Yeah just like Apple Inc.But google is a profit maximising company first and foremost.
Nobody said Google is making less than what they paid.Would they agree to pay Apple so much if they didn’t expect to earn even more back from us?
What would you have seen exactly?And if the rest of the android user base were anywhere near as lucrative, we would have seen it in their earnings report.
Who said that?Or do you think google is doing this because they have too much money to throw around?
Herer is the instructions for Edge. IE is similar.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028574/microsoft-edge-change-the-default-search-engine
That’s Edge. How do I remove it from Windows.
I am not sure what you are asking. I can and have changed it in Windows for all the browsers; Edge, IE, Chrome, Safari, etc...
Windows has built in web searches via the search bar, Cortana, and lookup features. All default to Bing even if your browser has a different search engine selected. There used to be a plug-in that would redirect searches, but Microsoft broke it with a previous update. The developer has stated that they don’t know how to get around it and have paused releasing any updates.
Okay, now I better understand your question.
Don't use Cortana and almost all of my lookups are either app or browser executed. As a result I have never really looked into it.
A quick look found this. I'll have to give it a deeper look.
https://www.intowindows.com/how-to-make-cortana-use-google-instead-of-bing/
https://pureinfotech.com/force-start-menu-search-google-windows-10/
https://www.christitus.com/2018/10/17/change-cortana-search/
It does look like MS made is difficult and reset after each update.![]()
$9b if you believe the estimate done by Goldman.
This deal Apple has going with Google has often struck me as a little weird these last few years when Apple has been so focused on privacy and the respect of customer data. I use DuckDuckGo and it works good enough for me, but I doubt there are many that jump in there and change the search default preference.
This is a totally made up number, and most certainly wrong. But because it's the internet, the guesstimate is usually stated as a fact, and is now often spouted as $12 Billion a year. The fact is that court documents show that Apple received $1 Billion dollars a year from Google in 2014. Everything else is a SWAG without any basis in fact, but one firm guessed it at $3Billion in 2017, and then others jumped it up in 2018 to 9 Billion, and now in 2019 some goofballs are guessing it at 12 Billion. I guess next year some "analyst" will estimate it at 15 Billion, and soon enough Google's entire revenue will be going to Apple. LOL. Guess all you want, but it's pathetic that these sites repeat it as though it were in any way a fact.
I personally don’t have an issue with this, because the payment changes nothing about the data transferred.... still sticking Google as the default search provider in MacOS and iOS.