Judge Blocks Google's Exclusive Search Deals
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Here's how the judge's remedies in the Department of Justice's Google antitrust case could affect Apple, OpenAI, and Perplexity.
Interestingly, you can also change your default search engine in Google's own Chrome app. Just tap your profile image to pull up your Settings. Select Search Engine and you'll see the following options: Google, Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Yandex.
U.S. District Judge Mehta ruled that Google can no longer pay partners to make its search engine available exclusively on their platforms.
In Brave's case, it's the Answer With AI feature that can be disabled in Settings, and with DuckDuckGo, there's a button at the top-right for Duck AI, which you can also disable in Settings. Once you've disabled those features, they won't appear in your search results or on the main page of the engine.