At the end of last year, the U.S. government finished arguing in an antitrust lawsuit against Google over its alleged search engine monopoly, but a verdict has not yet been handed down and is expected to take several months. As The Register reports, recently released filings from Google’s defense say that part of the reason Apple rejected a bid from Microsoft to make Bing the default search engine in Safari was because Annie – It became clear that the answer was incorrect when searching for information about Lennox.
Much of the government’s lawsuit against Google has focused on how the company maintained its status as Safari’s default search option. In testimony from Apple executive John Gianandrea, he said that while Apple had evaluated Bing as a potential alternative to Google, after using the Microsoft-owned search engine for several days, “the long tail suggests that Bing is better.” “I’m worried that things will get significantly worse,” he said.
Gianandrea wrote in an email: It works fine in most cases. Then, with some weird long tail queries, that’s not the case. A recent example is the Annie Lennox First Band. Google got “tourist” as the answer on the web. Bing highlights the same answer, but with a box highlighting Eurythmics. This is very worrying. ”
