Google invites competitors to bid on "default search engine" for mobile phones

The Bloomberg news agency announced that Google, a subsidiary of the Alphabit group, would invite its competitors to launch a tender as an alternative or virtual search engine via Android phones, in order to avoid any suspicion of monopoly.

Starting next year, Google will ask users to choose between Google and three other competing options as the default search engine. Google has invited search service providers to bid in a public auction on a new screen that will appear when someone will start using an Android mobile phone or tablet in Europe for the first time.

The European Commission has fined Google Inc. a fine of 4.3 billion euros last year 2018 for forcing device makers to preinstall the Google search engine and Google browser. Chrome ", which gave it an advantage.