The antitrust docs showed that most users didn't even know they weren't using google if they found themselves in front of a bing search.
This is absolutely cringey behaviour, but it's a downright polite compared to the tactics and dark-money-deals already in place, as shown in the antitrust docs.
> based on 26 user interviews; almost
half of the users (12) did not notice a surreptitious change from Google to Bing on their iPhone;
> Moreover, a search for “google.com” is one of the most frequently entered
search queries on Bing.
Id. at 2745:21-25 (Parakhin).
This is absolutely cringey behaviour, but it's a downright polite compared to the tactics and dark-money-deals already in place, as shown in the antitrust docs.
> based on 26 user interviews; almost half of the users (12) did not notice a surreptitious change from Google to Bing on their iPhone;
> Moreover, a search for “google.com” is one of the most frequently entered search queries on Bing. Id. at 2745:21-25 (Parakhin).
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