Google’s App Choice Screen Still Favors Google, Rival Says
- New Android phones must prompt alternatives under EU order
- DuckDuckGo criticizes design for tipping users towards Google
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Google’s response to a European Union order to give rival search apps a foothold on its Android phones may fail to steer users to alternatives, warned U.S. upstart DuckDuckGo, a competitor that won the right to appear as another search option on new handsets across Europe.
Google has to prompt users to pick alternative search and web browser apps under the terms of a 2018 EU antitrust ruling that found the company unfairly ties moneymaking services to the Android software it gives away.