I've been using Bing for a few weeks now it is not all the way there yet but so far the experience is more gratifying than Google. The results seem to be better and there is less ads on top the search results. Their AI integration is also well accomplished. No complains there...
Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine
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#12Wait, people actually use the android search box? It's usually the first thing I remove
Normal people just use the defaults, the idea of choosing a web browser or changing the default search engine is completely alien to most.
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#13I can't tell if this Magi project is supposed to be an iteration of Bard or something new.
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#14Some interesting dynamics at play here if true. Google basically maintains Android to get people to use Google services on it, so Samsung switching to Bing would eliminate Google's incentive to develop Android. Samsung is also by FAR the largest Android OEM and holds almost as much power over the platform as Google just from the sheer amount of Android devices that they ship.
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#15Samsung has done this before, and Google has multiple times made various offers and incentives intended to "encourage" Samsung not to. Because a huge portion of the Android monopoly will leave Google Search when this happens. Stuff like OEMs getting a cut of Play Store revenue are mechanics done to avoid this. There's a pretty good chance Samsung is just negotiating for better terms, kinda like carriage disputes for…
For comparison, Google pays Apple an estimated $15 billion a year to be the default engine on Safari.
https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/25/analysts-google-to-pay-apple-...
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#16What's Sundar's goal for Google? They seem to be aimless since he took the helm.
A little bit of everything until they figure out what to do.
Samsung and other OEMs get a lot of crap for how they handle android. But they are really the ones driving innovation here.
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#17Edit: looks like I'm wrong, see IceWreck's reply below. Original comment: my understanding is that this means Google will deny their customers access to Google Play, Photos and other first party Google apps. Samsung has replacements for some of these but not all of them.
Nope, to access play services you have to add the powered by android logo and preinstall a minimum set of required apps (including the google search app), but afaik nothing saying google has to be the default search engine.
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#19What's Sundar's goal for Google? They seem to be aimless since he took the helm.
That's exactly what I think. I personally also find him very uninspiring, it looks like he's basically just 'maintaining' the company on auto-pilot mode. No out of the world new ideas, and now the company is losing on the very field they were seemingly far-far ahead than the rest of the world.
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#20This sounds similar to Walmart saying they'll stop taking Visa. Samsung would be dumb not to at least threaten moving away from Google, even if they had no intention to change. It's a negotiating tactic, one that has more teeth in recent months because Google's competitors are finally showing a real challenge.