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>In the US, iOS has no search engine choice at all, in europe DDG quietly pays Apple a fee to be one of the choices. I’m in the US and I chose DDG from the iOS
by dwighttk 3y ago
>In the US, iOS has no search engine choice at all, in europe DDG quietly pays Apple a fee to be one of the choices.
I’m in the US and I chose DDG from the iOS default search engine list.
Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia are my choices.
- the_arun 3y agoNot sure why Amazon & Apple don’t have search engines of their own. Don’t they have this infra?
- vitus 3y agoAmazon used to have a separate web search product, but they shuttered that effort a while ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9.com#A9.com_search_portal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9.com#A9.com_search_portal Back in 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20060416033344/http://a9.com/-/home.jsp?nc=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20060416033344/http://a9.com/-/h... Since then, they've doubled down on product search for amazon.com.