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Google Paid How Much to Be the Default Search Engine? (gizmodo.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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One executive revealed the number, and it's more than the GDP of Haiti.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dunno about "the last update" or the current state in each region but as far as I know the default search engine in FireFox has varied over the years and has always depended what country you're in.

Baidu, Yandex and Yahoo are / have been the default in some countries. They made Bing the default for "1%" of users in a bunch of major countries recently to test the waters (and didn't take it further than that).

Google blocks traffic from Chinese IP addresses as a protest against censorship there, so nobody has Google as the default in that country.