Currently we see with some normality that every time we open Safari we have Google as our default search engine. But Bing was once one of the candidates to fill this position. An engine that we currently consider a mere shadow of Google because it seems that it doesn’t work as well even though it has improved in recent years.
In the past, Apple had to choose which engine to integrate into Safari: Google or Bing. A choice which at this moment is considered somewhat arbitrary, but in the end he had a very clear reason. And although it may seem strange, the real “culprit” of Google being our default search engine is singer Annie Lennox.
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We were able to learn this interesting story thanks to a presentation by Google before a lawsuit against the United States government over an antitrust case. Among the pages of this trial, we saw that it was one of the Apple executives who put Bing and Google to the test be able to choose between one or the other.
Specifically, this manager did a search on Bing to find out if it was accurate or not. For that introduced the term “Annie Lennox First Band”‘, that is to say I wanted to know the first group where the artist Annie Lennox was. The response that the search engine generated at that time was decisive in opting for one or the other, because it engaged a imprecision.
The band “Eurythmics” appeared on the engine, which, although they weren’t lying, was incorrect. What I expected was to feature the band ‘The Tourist’, which was truly the first band this singer was involved with. This made this Apple executive will not tolerate imprecision and will bet on Googlesomething that was later added to the clashes between Apple and Microsoft.
Behind this story you can find out how Apple or Google will have a reason to be able to clearly defend that it is the default search engine, by having a justified reason when it is based on objective facts. This is interesting to be able to justify not choosing a search engine, which American justice must resolve now.
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