Apple's contract with Google to be the default search engine on its Safari browser 'was often the elephant in the room,' said DuckDuck Go CEO Gabriel Weinberg.
Apple once considered replacing Google as its default search engine in private browsing mode on its products with DuckDuckGo, according to recently unsealed testimony.
"Our take was that they were actually really interested in this," DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg said, according to a transcript viewed by CNBC of the testimony in federal court last month. "The people we were talking to were generally DuckDuckGo users themselves interested in privacy.", said DuckDuckGo and Apple had about 20 meetings and phone calls over the course of the negotiations, which lasted from about 2016 through 2019.
DuckDuckGo first got a response from Apple about its idea to become the default search engine in private browsing in 2016, Weinberg said. DuckDuckGo claims its search engine greatly reduces the amount of tracking that is still possible in other search engines, even while on private browsing mode. DuckDuckGo executives returned to Cupertino the following summer for another meeting and presented visuals of how the product would look once its search engine was integrated into Apple services.
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