Google is fighting hard overturn its $5 billion antitrust fine in the EU in its appeal to the ruling. According to Bloomberg, Google has made the argument in its appeal that people use Google by choice, not force, as “Google” is by far the most-searched term on Bing.
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The European Union has argued that Google has abused its position as the maker of Android, defaulting all users to Google until other search options are installed. The regulator wants to force Google to stop insisting manufacturers of Android devices to pre-install Chrome and Google search in order to use Android at all. Google has countered by saying that most people will just end up choosing to use its search engine in any case.
Studies seem to confirm this statistic – “google” is indeed the top searched term on Bing worldwide. It’s followed by “youtube,” “facebook,” “gmail,” and “amazon,” but it beats the runner-up by around 5 million searches. Interestingly, in the US things are slightly different, with “bing” being the seventh most-searched term as opposed to tenth throughout the world. Again, this is due to defaults and which devices are used in different parts of the world.
