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Microsoft's Bing Will Have Key Slot on Some New Android Phones (bloomberg.com) 24

Posted by msmash from the how-about-that dept.
Microsoft's Bing search app will appear as a download prompt on new Android phones in Germany, the U.K. and France after it won slots in a Google auction for rivals. From a report: Google announced the results of its October-December auction on Tuesday, showing info.com won slots on a choice screen for new Android phones in all 31 countries, PrivacyWall won slots in 22 countries, GMX in 16 countries and Bing in 13 countries. DuckDuckGo won just eight slots in smaller markets, down from a slot in each country in the last period.
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  • Key slot? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by XanC ( 644172 ) on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @10:28AM (#60553716)

    A "key slot" is a particular thing with a particular meaning. Poorly used in the headline.

    • Maybe Microsoft is paying Android manufacturers to install a physical lock on their phones and you need a physical key to unlock Bing. Or maybe, as you say, the headline is abusing word meanings - again.

    • Hey Mando u want to see me naked? Go to private broadcast for u and me, I want to fulfill all your sexual fantasies =>> v.ht/xBKD9
  • One has to wonder how the EU fined Google $5 billion for hampering search engine competition in Europe [cnbc.com] but somehow thought it was a good idea to allow Google to auction these key slots to competing providers. Doing one while allowing the other seems like a tax grab by another name.

    • Google controls Android but does not control the bidders. As long as no bidder received preferential treatment, it's "clean".

      • My point is why didn't EUC supply a list of providers to Google and force them to provide a randomized selection of them for each user's first sign-on? Selling slots by auction just allows Google to make more profit while simultaneously locking out the minor competitors.

        • That's true. They forced something based on randomness on Microsoft for the browsers, they should have done the same for the default Android search engine.

          • None of the browsers gained anyone any direct money for users picking one over the other, Default search engine on the other hand is a different story. That’s why the remedy had to allow Google to make a pot of money relative to the competition, as a means of incentivising competition going forward while allowing Android to receive a subsidy for the fact its free.

    • Being that Europe doesn't have many notable competing services companies that are offering competition, I doubt they have much interest in really putting the thumb down on Google.

      In terms of Software and Software Services, Europe doesn't seem to be keeping up with America and Asia.

    • One has to wonder how the EU fined Google $5 billion for hampering search engine competition in Europe [cnbc.com] but somehow thought it was a good idea to allow Google to auction these key slots to competing providers. Doing one while allowing the other seems like a tax grab by another name.

      Because while it is illegal to use your market power to force your browser onto vendors, the opposite of that abuse is not allowing everyone access to your platform for free. The opposite is simply not abusing your market position.

      Quite specifically Google is no longer allowed to *prevent* mobile companies from bundling other browsers. In order to allow more competition they *offered* a selection screen. There is no requirement for this selection screen to be open to everyone for free.

  • Bing is becoming known as the "porn search engine". I would laugh...alot...if the phones that get Bing become known as "Porn" phones. Kind of like the early dual sim phones were known as "mistress" phones since their main market was guys wanting to have a separate number and profile on their phone to hide from their wives.

    • Bing is becoming known as the "porn search engine". I would laugh...alot...if the phones that get Bing become known as "Porn" phones. Kind of like the early dual sim phones were known as "mistress" phones since their main market was guys wanting to have a separate number and profile on their phone to hide from their wives.

      Dual sim phones were mostly for international travelers.

    • I would laugh...alot...if the phones that get Bing become known as "Porn" phones.

      There are plenty of phones on the market with Bing as a primary search engine. This hasn't happened yet. Also Bing is a pretty crap porn search engine, but it is better than Google.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by _merlin ( 160982 )

      early dual sim phones were known as "mistress" phones since their main market was guys wanting to have a separate number and profile on their phone to hide from their wives

      Wut? They had two key markets: people who had separate work and personal services, but didn't want to carry two phones, and people travelling who wanted to make calls with a local service but still be able to receive roaming calls/messages with their normal number. The second case is the reason they're so readily available in business h

  • So instead of being stuck with Google as the default, now we're going to have another privacy rapist being forced down our throats as the default search engine "suggestion" (read: paid the most to Google for the spot)?

    • So instead of being stuck with Google as the default, now we're going to have another privacy rapist being forced down our throats as the default search engine "suggestion" (read: paid the most to Google for the spot)?

      Only if you don't read and have no idea what's going on.

  • https://openstreetmap.org/ [openstreetmap.org] does not have all the features as the big boys but they do not harvest your data like Google or Microsoft.

    • https://openstreetmap.org/ [openstreetmap.org] does not have all the features as the big boys but they do not harvest your data like Google or Microsoft.

      And you can fix the errors.

    • Personally I only use notepad for navigation. It's only got marginally less features that suit this purpose than Openstreetmaps.

    • OsmAnd is a pretty nice Open Street Map navigation app. Lets you download area maps state-by-state and you can do all navigation offline then if you want.

  • Wow you guys complained about Google being a monopoly and got partnered up with Microsoft as a result, great job guys.

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