{"id":162448,"date":"2023-04-19T04:22:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T09:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/panic-at-google-samsung-considers-dumping-search-for-bing-and-chatgpt"},"modified":"2023-04-19T04:22:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T09:22:42","slug":"panic-at-google-samsung-considers-dumping-search-for-bing-and-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/panic-at-google-samsung-considers-dumping-search-for-bing-and-chatgpt","title":{"rendered":"Panic at Google: Samsung considers dumping search for Bing and ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/panic-at-google-samsung-considers-dumping-search-for-bing-and-chatgpt.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/16\/technology\/google-search-engine-ai.html\">The New York Times<\/a> has a big piece detailing Google\u2019s \u201cshock\u201d and \u201cpanic\u201d when Samsung recently floated the idea of switching its smartphones from Google Search to Bing. After being the butt of jokes for years, Bing has been seen as <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/03\/ai-powered-chat-helps-bing-make-a-small-dent-in-googles-search-hegemony\/\">a rising threat<\/a> to Google thanks to Microsoft\u2019s deal with OpenAI and the integration of the red-hot ChatGPT generative AI. Now, according to the report, one of Android\u2019s biggest manufacturers is threatening to switch its new phones away from Google Search.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, preinstalled search deals are more about cash than quality. Google pays billions every year to be the default search engine on popular products with deals framed as either \u201crevenue sharing\u201d or \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/fourweekmba.com\/traffic-acquisition-cost\/#:~:text=The%20traffic%20acquisition%20cost%20is, of%20its%20total%20advertising%20revenues.\">traffic acquisition fees<\/a>.\u201d Google reportedly pays as much as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinvestor.co.kr\/view.php?ud=20170816000718\">$3.5 billion per year<\/a> to be the default search on Samsung phones, while it pays Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/macdailynews.com\/2023\/02\/21\/google-pays-apple-20-billion-annually-to-be-safaris-default-search-engine\/\">$20 billion<\/a> per year to be the default search on iOS and macOS. The report notes that the Samsung\/Google search contract \u201cis under negotiation, and Samsung could stick with Google.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a big piece detailing Google\u2019s \u201cshock\u201d and \u201cpanic\u201d when Samsung recently floated the idea of switching its smartphones from Google Search to Bing. After being the butt of jokes for years, Bing has been seen as a rising threat to Google thanks to Microsoft\u2019s deal with OpenAI and the integration [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}