{"id":43987,"date":"2024-07-05T16:16:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T20:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=43987"},"modified":"2024-07-05T16:16:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T20:16:12","slug":"doj-investigating-apple-google-default-search-engine-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/05\/doj-investigating-apple-google-default-search-engine-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Investigating Apple-Google Default Search Engine Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/07\/05\/antitrust-lawsuit-threatens-apple-deal-with-google\/\">Hartley Charlton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/07\/05\/antitrust-lawsuit-threatens-apple-deal-with-google\/\"><p>Apple&rsquo;s deal with Google that makes it the default engine on Safari faces uncertainty as the U.S. Department of Justice&rsquo;s antitrust lawsuit looms, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/google-struggles-to-lessen-reliance-on-apple-safari\"><em>The Information<\/em><\/a> reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/07\/05\/google-search-iphone-safari-ai-features\/\">Chance Miller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/07\/05\/google-search-iphone-safari-ai-features\/\">\n<p>Google pays Apple upwards of $20 billion per year to retain that default status, something the Justice Department says hinders competition in the search engine industry. Notably, Apple is not named as a party in the lawsuit, but the case has led to testimonies from Apple executives such as Eddy Cue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>It seems to me that that the built-in choices of search engines and the inability for users to add custom ones are much bigger deals than which one is the default.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/24\/googles-ai-search-and-web-view\/\">Google&rsquo;s AI Search and &ldquo;Web&rdquo; View<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/12\/effects-of-the-dmas-browser-choice-requirement\/\">Effects of the DMA&rsquo;s Browser Choice Requirement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/27\/google-pays-to-be-default-on-samsung-phones\/\">Google Pays to Be Default on Samsung Phones<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/03\/apples-q4-2023-results\/\">Apple&rsquo;s Q4 2023 Results<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/23\/cue-testimony-in-us-v-google\/\">Cue Testimony in US v. Google<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/24\/google-accused-of-violating-retention-obligations\/\">Google Accused of Violating Retention Obligations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/17\/setting-default-apps-in-ios-14\/\">Setting Default Apps in iOS 14<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hartley Charlton: Apple&rsquo;s deal with Google that makes it the default engine on Safari faces uncertainty as the U.S. Department of Justice&rsquo;s antitrust lawsuit looms, The Information reports. Chance Miller: Google pays Apple upwards of $20 billion per year to retain that default status, something the Justice Department says hinders competition in the search engine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-07-05T20:16:15Z","apple_news_api_id":"66626bcd-4844-4cbf-83d1-32306c04a31a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-07-05T20:16:15Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AZmJrzUhETL-D0TIwbASjGg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2085,101,1870,2286,31,2321,41,209,30,2385,103],"class_list":["post-43987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antitrust","tag-business","tag-department-of-justice-doj","tag-google-search","tag-ios","tag-ios-17","tag-lawsuit","tag-legal","tag-mac","tag-macos-14-sonoma","tag-safari"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43988,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43987\/revisions\/43988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}