Apple Considered, Rejected Switch to DuckDuckGo From Google
- DuckDuckGo spoke with Apple about 20 times on possible change
- Apple exec testified he viewed it as ‘probably a bad idea’
Apple Inc. held talks with DuckDuckGo to replace Alphabet Inc.’s Google as the default search engine for the private mode on Apple’s Safari browser, but ultimately rejected the idea.
The details of those talks — and Apple’s discussions about buying Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine in 2018 and 2020 — were revealed late Wednesday in transcripts unsealed by US District Judge Amit Mehta, who is overseeing the US government’s antitrust trial against Google.
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Apple Considered, Rejected Switch to DuckDuckGo From Google