Imagine if the best Android phones didn't have Google as their search engine. As wild as it sounds, that's what Samsung was reportedly considering. But don't worry: according to a new and well-informed report, Samsung has canned its plans for the time being. The Samsung Galaxy S24, like the Samsung Galaxy S23 and its predecessors, will still be a Google machine.
The new report comes from the Wall Street Journal (paywall), which says that Samsung has now abandoned its plans to make Bing the default search engine in its own web browser. That's good news for Google, which reportedly brings in $3 billion a year from search on Samsung. But why was Samsung considering moving away – and can it even do that when it's running Google's own mobile OS?
