Samsung decides to keep Google as its default device search engine after all

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Samsung was considering replacing the default search engine for its smartphones from Google to Bing. But according to recent reports, the company has abandoned this idea and decided to keep Google as the default search engine for its phones.

Had Samsung, the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, chosen Bing as its default search engine for Samsung devices over Google, it would've been an unprecedented win for Microsoft's search engine, and a huge loss for Google. 

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