The latest rumor says the move floated in the previous rumor won’t be happening – at least for now.
After rumors that Samsung might be switching its in-house browser app’s default search engine from Google to Bing – perhaps in time for the Galaxy S24 – a new report suggests that the change is no longer happening, which is no doubt a relief to Google.
This comes from the Wall Street Journal (via The Verge), and like the original rumor, there’s not a whole lot to go off. The WSJ says that an internal review into whether Samsung should jump from Google to Bing has now been suspended, with Samsung apparently worried about disruption for users and souring its relationship with Google.
Those clearly negative aspects of any potential switch made the idea of it pretty inconceivable in the first place, though it sounds as though Samsung was thinking about it – perhaps impressed by the swift rolling out of various Bing AI features.Staying number one
Another factor to consider in all of this is that we’re talking about Samsung’s own Internet Browser app: Google would of course still have been front and center in Chrome for Android.
