Apple once considered using the DuckDuckGo search engine in Safari.

Accordingly, these negotiations took place concurrently with Apple's discussions to acquire Bing from Microsoft between 2018 and 2020.

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg said he had about 20 meetings and phone calls with Apple executives, including the head of Safari, in 2018 and 2019.

DuckDuckGo cannot appear on Safari because it uses search results from Bing.

Weinberg also stated that Apple has integrated some of DuckDuckGo's other security technologies into Safari. In private mode, the web browser does not record history or store user data.

However, Giannandrea, who joined Apple as head of search in 2018, said that at the time the iPhone giant had not considered switching to DuckDuckGo.

In an email sent to other Apple executives in February 2019, Giannandrea stated that it was “probably a bad idea” to switch to DuckDuckGo for private browsing in Safari.

The reason given is that the aforementioned secure web browser relies on Bing for information retrieval, and therefore it may send user information to Microsoft.

The U.S. Department of Justice is accusing Google of paying billions of dollars to Apple and other tech companies to become the default search engine on web browsers and smartphones.

According to antitrust enforcement, those agreements prevented other search engines, such as Bing and DuckDuckGo, from becoming competitors to Google.

As part of the negotiations, Apple researched Bing's search results against Google's. The research, conducted in May 2021, showed that Google largely provided better results, except for English-language searches on desktop computers, where Bing's results closely matched Google's.

(According to Bloomberg)

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