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Apple Gets 36% of Google's Safari Search Revenue

www.macrumors.com Apple Gets 36% of Google's Safari Search Revenue

As Google battles an antitrust lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice, secrets about its search deals with Apple have been leaking out. We...

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Probably explains why I’m not allowed to just make Kagi my default search engine on iOS and Mac.
- They have a lot of other options though. Maybe because Kagi isn’t well known? What makes it different from the ones they offer?
  
  For reference you can select your default to be:
  
  Google
  
  Yahoo
  
  Bing
  
  Baidu
  
  DuckDuckGo
  
  Sogou
  
  360 Search
  
  Ecosia
  
  Also of those what do y’all like the most? I’ve been using DuckDuckGo and it’s decent.
  
  The real problem is that it is not possible to set a custom search engine like you can in Firefox (with a hack) or Chromium browsers.
  
  Also, not sure where you are in the world but I (in the US) only have the following options:
  
  Google
  
  Yahoo
  
  Bing
  
  DuckDuckGo
  
  Ecosia
  
  I pay for Kagi because it does not have any form of advertising or “sponsored results”, and it consistently gives me the best results of any other browser I’ve tried.
  
  Apple supporting this would not be hard, as with all the other search engines the search is just a query parameter appended to the url, they could just provide a template string for “unsupported” search engines.
  
  Only Kagi
- You can! Try xSearch from Appstore, it allows you to set any search URL as default for Safari.
They need access to your data usage for this.
People use Safari on Mac?
- Safari is in second place behind Chrome and has 15% of the browser market share globally and 25% in the USA. Yeah, people use Safari.
  
  But that’s because of iPhone. Macs are a tiny percent of devices globally.
- It’s one of the few browsers that’s not powered by Chrome, so yeah.
  
  Modern Chrome and Safari used to share the same open source engine until it was forked. They're not that different from each other
- Safari is great. Quick Look, syncing tab groups, good touchpad navigation, non janky UI and probably more are my reasons for using it. I just wish it was possible to have shared bookmarks with Firefox which I use on Linux (or have an actual Linux port of it even but that's even less going to happen)
- Safari power usage on mac is incredibly low compared to Firefox and other browsers. If you're on battery while on Mac hardware I highly recommend using Safari

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