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> Prominently allowing search engine choice That's already happening in Europe: https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/update-android-search-p
by tantalor 6y ago
> Prominently allowing search engine choice
That's already happening in Europe:
https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/update-android-search-providers-europe/ https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/updat...
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/02/google-to-let-eu-users-choose-their-default-search-provider-on-android.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/02/google-to-let-eu-users-choos...
- nojito 6y agoThey royally screw over DDG https://spreadprivacy.com/search-preference-menu-duckduckgo-elimination/ https://spreadprivacy.com/search-preference-menu-duckduckgo-...
- sct202 6y agoHow are tiny names like Info.com and PrivacyWall are able to pay for slots over DDG? PrivacyWall has like 3 people on LinkedIn. https://www.android.com/choicescreen-winners/ https://www.android.com/choicescreen-winners/
- tantalor 6y agoDDG complains they can't win the auction: search engines who squeeze money out of every last drop of people's personal information (including ISPs and arbitrage players that will participate in next year's auctions) are easily able to outbid search engines like us that respect people's privacy https://spreadprivacy.com/search-preference-menu-auctions/ https://spreadprivacy.com/search-preference-menu-auctions/
- hardtke 6y agoHas this reduced search market share for Google in Europe? I suspect not since Google has a high brand loyalty. In fact this complaint may make Google even more profitable by not allowing phone manufacturers to charge the for default placement. I believe it will likely kill the main revenue stream for Mozilla as well.