In the end, DuckDuckGo decided that “it was a quixotic exercise” to get its search engine to be the default in private browsing tabs, CEO Gabriel Weinberg said.
Google's exclusive contracts proved to be an"obstacle" for DuckDuckGo in pitching browsers on becoming the default search engine for their private browsing modes, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg testified in federal court on Thursday.Google is facing allegations from the DOJ and a coaltion of state attorneys general that it violated antitrust law through its use of exclusionary contracts to be the default search engine on browsers and phones.
DuckDuckGo, known for its privacy-centric search engine that rivals Google's, had at some point pitched its search engine to be the default in private browsing modes of other browsers, Weinberg testified in D.C. District Court. Google is facing allegations from the DOJ and a coalition of state attorneys general that it violated antitrust law through its use of exclusionary contracts to be the default search engine on browsers like Apple's Safari and on phones that use Google's Android operating system."We thought it was a great pitch to browsers, honestly," Weinberg said during questioning by an attorney for the Department of Justice.
"We really took that pitch pretty far and wide," Weinberg said. Despite garnering interest, he said they"hit an obstacle" with companies' contracts with Google.
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