Samsung Electronics will not change the default search engine on its smartphones from Google to Microsoft Corp’s MSFT-Q Bing any time soon, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Samsung has suspended an internal review that explored replacing Google with Bing on its web-browsing app, which comes pre-installed on the company’s smartphones, according to the report. Google and Samsung did not respond to Reuters requests for comment. Google earns an estimated $3 billion in annual revenue from the Samsung contract, according to an April 16 report by the New York Times. Samsung considering a potential shift to Bing was first reported last month and had weighed on Alphabet’s GOOG-Q shares at the time.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 20, 2023 06:26 UTC