Google will remain default search on Samsung devices: WSJ

Reports earlier emerged indicating that Samsung is considering replacing Google with AI-powered Bing as the default search engine on Galaxy devices. As Google is bringing the power of AI to its search and services, Samsung will stick with it and pause on plans to bring Bing.

According to Wall Street Journal sources, Samsung will not change the default search engine on its devices from Google to Microsoft Corp’s Bing any time soon. The company has reportedly halted its internal review that explored replacing Google with Bing on its web-browsing app.

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It’s worth mentioning that Google comes as a pre-default search engine on all Galaxy devices. However, users can replace the default search engine through System Settings or during initial setup with options available including Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo.

A New York Times report revealed that Google earns an estimated $3 billion in annual revenue from the Samsung contract for sharing search engine as default. Similarly, search-engine companies earn a sizable part of the revenue from their long-term partnerships with phone makers.

Since Microsoft integrated ChatGPT’s Generative AI capabilities into Bing search, it has gained active users. Seeing the rapid growth, Google was concerned about its dominance and quickly introduced in-house AI capabilities that are coming across products including Search.

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