Apple Inc. is allegedly in negotiations with DuckDuckGo to replace Alphabet’s Google as the default search engine for Apple’s Safari browser’s private mode.
A phone browser is a web browser intended for use on a mobile device such as a smartphone or tablet. Mobile browsers are designed to show online material as well as possible on tiny displays.
Apple’s Safari browser is a web browser. It is the default browser for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS devices. Safari first appeared in 2003.
Safari is built on the free and open-source WebKit engine. It takes advantage of features like a Reading List, Favourites, iCloud Tabs, and Siri Suggestions. Safari is also more energy efficient than other browsers, giving you more usage time.
The name Safari relates to the mindset of exploration that Apple wished to instill in the browser.
According to Bloomberg, the facts of the negotiations between Apple and DuckDuckGo will be exposed this week during Google’s anti-trust hearing. Judge Amit Mehta, who is supervising a federal antitrust case against Google, ordered on Wednesday that the testimony of DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg and Apple executive John Giannandrea will be unsealed.
According to Bloomberg, conversations regarding prospective mergers between Microsoft and Apple, as well as DuckDuckGo and Apple, will be unveiled shortly.
The US Department of Justice said last month that Google, which controls over 90% of the search industry, unlawfully paid $10 billion per year to smartphone manufacturers such as Apple and cellular carriers such as AT&T and others to be the default in search on their devices to maintain its dominance.
On Monday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified, stating that digital behemoths were fighting for massive troves of information required to train artificial intelligence and that Google was locking up content via pricey and exclusive arrangements with publishers.
Nadella testified on Microsoft’s efforts with Apple to make Bing, rather than Google, the default search engine on Apple’s Safari browser. Microsoft, according to Nadella, is ready to lose billions of dollars if Apple makes the transition.
According to Nadella, Google’s unscrupulous practices contributed to its supremacy as a search engine, actions that have stymied his company’s competitor program, Bing.
According to Nadella, people have little option when it comes to opting out of default web browsers on mobile phones and laptops.
“We are one of the alternatives but we’re not the default,” he said.
According to Nadella, Google’s dominance stems from agreements that make it the default browser on smartphones and PCs.
