Google pays a lot of money to make its search engine the default on products like Firefox and Apple’s Safari browser, but Microsoft might try to buy its way into your browser of preference. However, ...

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Testifying in the biggest U.S. antitrust case in a quarter century, Google CEO Sundar Pichai defended his company’s practice of paying Apple AAPL-Q and other tech companies to make Google the default ...

With iOS 26.2, Apple is adding a prompt that allows iPhone users in Japan to select a preferred search engine. As noted on ...

It's hard to imagine life without Google. The internet as we know it is built around search engines, and Google is the biggest of them all. In 2024, Google was the primary search engine for 76% of ...