This is a text automatically translated from Italian. If you appreciate our work and if you like reading it in your language, consider a donation to allow us to continue doing it and improving it.
In 2018 Europe he fined Google of almost 5 billion euros for its predominant position in Android search engines. Google has thus decided to give all users the opportunity to choose their own Search engine on Android and from 1 March 2020 it will be like this.
When you buy a new Android phone you can choose which one Search engine use by default, but you won't be able to choose just any one. Google invented a paid auction where all search engines could participate. Everything is fine Search engine will pay a sum to Google for each user who chooses it as default. This auction will be repeated every four months to give everyone the opportunity to participate.
Does this seem absurd to you? Yes enough. So that Ecosia she got out of it boycotting the auction (sincere congratulations to Ecosia).
Below we leave you the TheVerge link where you can read the entire news and where you can also see the position in the various European states of all the search engines that participated and won the auction. The news is that Bing will not be present almost anywhere except in the UK. They win by a landslide DuckDuckGo, Info.com And Qwant.
If you don't know which one Search engine choose, read our article on alternatives to Google Search.
We remind you that if you are looking for alternatives to Google, not only with regards to Search engine but if you are also looking alternatives to Google Maps or alternatives to Google Translate you can look at ours dedicated section or take a look at alternatives beyond Google.
Join communities
If you have found errors in the article you can report them by clicking here, Thank you!