DuckDuckGo cries fowl after being expunged from Google's Android search preferences menu for most of Europe

DuckDuckGo cries fowl after being expunged from Google's Android search preferences menu for most of Europe

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo will no longer appear on Google's European search preference menu for Android in most countries, despite being the most popular choice after Google.


The company has complained in response to Google's publication of its latest "choice screen winners". In 2019 Google agreed to provide Android users a prompt for selecting the default search provider, in response to a July 2018 decision by the European Commission that Google has been abusing its dominant position by tying the Google search app with the Play Store.


Google's remedy is controversial. Four choices are shown, of which one is always Google, and Google ..

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