Wish I could change the default search engine for searching the Internet using Siri, it’s always Google no matter what settings you have set. 
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Court Allows Google-Apple Search Deal to Continue With Conditions
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cripping to shareholders maybe.
Non-exclusive in what sense? Isn't there already the option to change your default search engine? Or do they mean non-exclusive in the sense that other search engines are allowed to also pay 20B/year for consideration.
This data sharing part is huge if it takes force then it would go a long way to levelling the playing field in online search and shake up SEO with being less of a guessing game.
The ultimate power that Google holds is in any political bias in search results.
That can't apply to just Google though, it has to apply to all including Meta and social media.
So the dirty payola can continue... Congrats to Apple, I suppose. I don't see any way the consumer gains anything by this.
Was the right decision.. Government was crazy trying to get everything they were asking for.. Government needs to stay out of tech when its not hurting the consumer and in this case it wasn't because people had an option to not use Google services. Hell on Android you can make it less Google then you could ever make an iPhone less Apple. should have tossed the whole case.
This particular monopoly hurts Google competitors and, as a result, it hurts the consumers. Businesses paying more for advertising add these extra expenses to their product prices. Consumer then pays more.
This is a good win for Google. Imagine they had to give up Chrome AND Android? Wow, that would have been tough.
The data sharing appeal is kinda funny if you think about it. 🤣
This is completely false. Droid IS Google. You can’t take that out of the phone. Google is all about data collection and what do you think droid does? Just turns a phone on and off then goes to sleep?…
iOS isn’t out to scrape every last bit of info on you and your family/ peers…you can use alternatives for every app iPhone has pre-installed on it…of course, except for the store and the OS itself…
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And 2.26 percent of a billion devices is still about 26,000,000 users, which is nothing to sneeze at. I am willing to wager that the market is quite a lot larger than a billion.
Exactly. What is the judge on about? So the ruling is other search engines can compete with the same 20 billion to be the default search engine? What a dumb decision, that’s precisely the problem, nobody can compete with that.
So Google has to share the recipe for its secret sauce. It ain't fair to Google, but I can get behind that. I sometimes have to fall back on Google when doing a non-English search.
Is there a bigger Apple bootlicker than Neil Cybart? Google search is complete garbage now and more and more people are using other sources. It’s laughable to think Google isn’t paying Apple enough.
So... what exactly is the remedy for Google's illegal monopoly? Seems like they're set to get off with a slap on the wrist.
Google hasn't had the "best" search engine in years, if, indeed they ever did. Their search results favor advertisers, and often return results that are not optimal, while also gathering personal data on the user for future marketing and manipulation.
Of course, as they should be. This preserves a large revenue and profit stream for Apple.
What’s illegal about them? No one forces you to use them and you have other choices.
I've been using DDG 100% of the time and I like it I don't see myself going back to Google search anytime soon.
Apple could not offer alternative search engines. Just like someone who complained that Siri always defaults to google. Not anymore.
Agreed, and it makes me think Google is getting more than just default search from Apple they must be getting something with a perceived value greater than $20B per year.
$216/yr for searching? Okay, but no. We use Brave and google, no bloat, no ads and we party like it's 2003.
Use a different search engine and don’t install their browser Chrome. There are options.
By the time the trial concluded, Google’s search share had been massively eroded by AI chatbots. The thing about monopolies is that while alternative vendors struggle to compete, the market responds to exploitation with obsolescence.