<story><title>2020 Q4 Alphabet Earnings Release [pdf]</title><url>https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2020Q4_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bko</author><text>Serious question, do you think threatening to remove google as the default search engine is a serious threat? I use ddg and tried Bing when they were paying people to use it, but I have no illusions that google is by far the most superior search engine. It would be weird if they switched the default.&lt;p&gt;But then again... apple maps.</text></item><item><author>ksec</author><text>Google &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; growing revenue at 23% YoY?&lt;p&gt;Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google. All of them beat even the most optimistic estimates.&lt;p&gt;Will have to dig into whether the cost of being Apple&amp;#x27;s default search engine has risen. Generally speaking it should $10 &amp;#x2F; user &amp;#x2F; year. Apple just reported another 200M increase in Active Devices. There &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; be some hint, or may be it will have to wait until next contract negotiation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ksec</author><text>&amp;gt; do you think threatening to remove google as the default search engine is a serious threat?&lt;p&gt;It would be if Apple made a search engine. Media will spin this as a Search Engine that values your privacy from Apple. It is the best thing ever etc. Given Apple&amp;#x27;s consumer branding, as long as it isn&amp;#x27;t so bad people will use it.&lt;p&gt;The problem is I dont see that happening. $10B of pure profits is a large amount of money doesn&amp;#x27;t matter how you slice and dice it.&lt;p&gt;Making a half decent search engine is still very hard. They are happy to squeeze Google, making less information available to Google in the name of privacy, all while eating away all the profitable Smartphone market shares.&lt;p&gt;That is one reason I dont quite like current Apple. It reeks of hypocrisy. Stop attacking Google as evil, painting themselves as Saint, all while happily receiving Billions of dollars. But current media seems to like this idea, and it fit well with the current US political spectrum.</text></comment>
<story><title>2020 Q4 Alphabet Earnings Release [pdf]</title><url>https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2020Q4_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bko</author><text>Serious question, do you think threatening to remove google as the default search engine is a serious threat? I use ddg and tried Bing when they were paying people to use it, but I have no illusions that google is by far the most superior search engine. It would be weird if they switched the default.&lt;p&gt;But then again... apple maps.</text></item><item><author>ksec</author><text>Google &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; growing revenue at 23% YoY?&lt;p&gt;Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google. All of them beat even the most optimistic estimates.&lt;p&gt;Will have to dig into whether the cost of being Apple&amp;#x27;s default search engine has risen. Generally speaking it should $10 &amp;#x2F; user &amp;#x2F; year. Apple just reported another 200M increase in Active Devices. There &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; be some hint, or may be it will have to wait until next contract negotiation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frenchy</author><text>I think Google&amp;#x27;s brand power is by far the most important thing here. When people don&amp;#x27;t find what they&amp;#x27;re looking for on Google, the figure it&amp;#x27;s hard to find, or they need to learn how to query better. When people don&amp;#x27;t find what they&amp;#x27;re looking for on Bing, they think it&amp;#x27;s Bing&amp;#x27;s fault.&lt;p&gt;Edit: as for your actual question: possibly. In my opinion the quality difference between Google &amp;amp; Apple Maps is greater than Google vs Bing search.</text></comment>