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Sorry Bing, Samsung’s sticking with Google as its default mobile search engine

Sorry Bing, Samsung’s sticking with Google as its default mobile search engine https://ift.tt/uCIx1Ag
Samsung Galaxy S23 Plus standing upright on a table top showing home screen and colorful wallpaper.
Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge

It looks like Samsung isn’t going to use Bing as the default search engine on its mobile web browser after all. That’s according to a report from The Wall Street Journal, which says Samsung paused an internal review of whether the company should replace Google with Bing on its in-house Internet Browser.

Samsung’s Internet Browser, which comes pre-installed on Samsung phones, has long used Google as its default search engine. As reported last month by The New York Times, Google employees were “shocked” to learn that Samsung had been contemplating a switch to Bing, putting at stake the $3 billion in annual revenue that the search giant gets out of the deal.

According to the WSJ, the smartphone maker apparently thought that switching to...

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