Why did Microsoft pre-install EDGE and bundle Bing search without being sued?
A few days ago, the US Department of Justice announced an antitrust lawsuit against Google. The US Department of Justice believes that Google uses various channels to occupy a large share of the US search engine market.
The method Google uses includes pre-installing Google search on the Android system and paying tens of billions of dollars to Apple to make Google search the default search engine for Safari.
The U.S. Department of Justice believes that Google currently has a monopoly on the U.S. search market, and in the long run it will not be conducive to market competition and ultimately bring negative effects to consumers and the industry.
The sued Google said it was very depressing. After all, it seemed that there was nothing wrong with bundling search engines in its own operating system and spending money to become the default search engine for Apple devices.
A Google spokesperson said that the antitrust lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice has serious flaws. People use Google voluntarily and are not forced to use Google.
The company believes that the lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice will not help consumers in any way. On the contrary, it may artificially support low-quality search engine alternatives.
At the same time, Google also compared its business model with companies such as Microsoft and Apple. Google said that it became the default search for Safari because it won the competition.
What’s interesting is that Google said that the company’s products will not be pre-installed on Windows. Instead, Microsoft will pre-install the Microsoft Edge browser on Windows.
At the same time, Microsoft also uses its own Bing search engine as the default search in the Microsoft Edge browser, IE browser, and the Windows 10 search bar.
What Google means is that if its behavior is a monopoly, then Microsoft also has a monopoly, and the US Department of Justice should also file an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft.
The Firefox browser is mainly funded by the search engine provider, and Firefox is pre-installed with the search engine to get the provider to pay for the search share.
A number of different search engines are also pre-installed in Firefox. At one time, the default search engine of Firefox was the Yahoo search provided by Yahoo.
Google said that during the time when Firefox used Yahoo as the default search, there were still a large number of users actively switching search engines to replace Yahoo with Google.
The company said that Firefox data shows that people prefer Google search, and that is why consumers will actively switch other searches to Google search.
In the end, Firefox still set the default search engine to Google search, which Firefox said will help provide high-quality searches and improve user experience.
Google used Firefox’s cooperation case as part of its defense. Google claimed that no one forced consumers, but consumers actively chose Google based on search quality.
