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Google Antitrust Filing Reveals Microsoft Offered to Sell Bing to Apple

         

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10:44 am on Feb 26, 2024 (gmt 0)

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According to court documents released Friday, Microsoft offered to sell its search engine, Bing, to Apple in 2018, however, Apple rejected the offer on the basis of search quality issues.

“In each instance, Apple took a hard look at the relative quality of Bing versus Google and concluded that Google was the superior default choice for its Safari users. That is competition,” Google wrote in the filing.

The Justice Department said in its own newly unsealed filing that Microsoft has spent almost $100 billion on Bing over 20 years. The Windows and Office software maker launched Bing in 2009, following search efforts under the MSN and Windows Live brands.


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