Google’s search competitors aren’t very competitiveGoogle has a search monopoly, the lawsuit asserts, because it has 88 percent of the search market in the United States. It started in 2005 when Google gave Apple a percentage of ad revenue from searches from Apple devices, and Apple made Google the default search engine. Between its own Chrome browser and Safari, Google is the default search engine on more than 90 percent of mobile browser searches, the lawsuit says. The Justice Department’s lawsuit floats a possible factor in its failure after one year: It used Bing as its default search engine. Amazon installed its own apps and app store instead of the usual Google offerings, and went with Microsoft’s search engine.

Source: Washington Post October 20, 2020 22:43 UTC