Apple is considering moving its search engine from Google to DuckDuckGo.

According to Bloomberg, details of the discussions are expected to be released later this week after the judge overseeing the antitrust case against Google announced that he would make public the testimony of DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg and an Apple executive, John Giannandrea.

DuckDuckGo is a private search engine that competes with Google. (Image: Cnet)

Initially, Judge Amit Mehta allowed Weinberg and Giannandrea to testify about the negotiations in closed sessions. However, on October 4th, he decided that the testimony was central to the case and should be made public. Several other testimonies regarding similar discussions between Microsoft and Apple have also not been made public.

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Apple and Google requested that their testimony be kept confidential. However, Judge Mehta stated that he had carefully reviewed every line of the transcript and would release the executives' comments, excluding trade secrets such as the names of internal Apple projects or precise financial figures.

The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that Google paid billions of dollars to Apple and other companies to be the default search engine on web browsers and smartphones. These transactions prevented other search engines like Microsoft's Bing and DuckDuckGo from expanding their user base and competing with Google.

On October 2nd, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified in court and revealed details of negotiations aimed at persuading Apple to replace Google with Bing on Safari. He shared that Microsoft was willing to lose billions of dollars if Apple agreed.

(According to Bloomberg)

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