DuckDuckGo Urges DOJ to Encourage Mobile Search Competition
Privacy-based search engine DuckDuckGo released a study on Monday which found that allowing smartphone users to choose their default search engine could result in Google losing 20 percent of its search market.
DuckDuckGo, a competitor to Google search, recently met with the Justice Department and urged the agency to create a preference menu on Android so users could easily switch to different search providers.
Google controls 95 percent of the American search market, 98 percent of the British search market, and 98 percent of the Australian search market.
The DuckDuckGo proposal to have users have a preference menu, in which they could choose their default search engine, found that this proposal could reduce Googles dominance on the online search market by 20 percent in the U.S., 22 percent in the U.K., and 16 percent in Australia.
Gabriel Weinberg, the CEO of DuckDuckGo, said in a statement on Monday that their proposal serves a simple solution to encourage more search engine competition when compared to potentially more onerous antitrust solutions.
Our focus is firmly on providing free services that help people every day, lower costs for small businesses, and enable increased choice and competition, a Google spokesperson told Axios.
Other countries have opted for DuckDuckGos proposal and found that offering a choice screen or preference menu encourages search engine competition.
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