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I'm all for antitrust regulators being more active to spur competition, but this is an odd one. Microsoft certainly pays OEMs to configure Bing, Google & Yahoo
by Eridrus 10y ago
I'm all for antitrust regulators being more active to spur competition, but this is an odd one. Microsoft certainly pays OEMs to configure Bing, Google & Yahoo have paid Mozilla to use their search engine. Yahoo pays for crapware to install their toolbar, often paying malware authors, and yet it's Android that gets them in a frenzy.
Google clearly has platform power here, but targeting the payments is such an odd one to me. I can't believe phone manufacturers will be happy about this either since competing search engines probably won't pay them as much in light of this.
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago> Microsoft certainly pays OEMs to configure Bing Microsoft has little market share.
- cscurmudgeon 10y agoGoogle pays more to Apple to have their search as default than Yahoo pays Mozilla and Oracle. Btw, can you point towards Yahoo paying for crapware to be installed?
- Eridrus 10y agoSorry, no references off the top of my head, just seen it first hand when investigating pay per install networks in desktop crapware. Saw Ask & Yahoo toolbars getting installed by them, pretty sure that indicated a kickback, but I didn't care to dig.
- makomk 10y agoIt's a very odd one. It'd leave Microsoft and possibly Yahoo the only companies willing and able to pay phone companies to install their search, and Microsoft's historically been a lot more obnoxious about it, paying them to prevent users from switching to alternative search engines.