Google searches fell in Safari for the first time ever last month, Apple’s senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, said during Google’s antitrust trial on Wednesday. “That has never ...

Apple is flirting with the idea of making AI tools the default search option for Safari instead of Google. As first reported by Bloomberg, Apple’s services chief Eddy Cue revealed during ...

For its part, Google says that overall search volume is not down, but that more people are simply using the Google app, instead of searching in Safari. This is where things start to get interesting.

Cue’s statement sent ripples through markets, with Google parent Alphabet’s stock falling 7.3% amid concerns that Apple might end its lucrative deal of making Google the default Safari search ...

And Google itself is diving headfirst into AI search, first with the introduction of AI overviews, and then with the beta for AI Mode, a new chatbot-style search tool.

Apple is going to add AI search providers to the Safari browser on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Bloomberg reports Apple SVP Eddy Cue made the disclosure in court testimony today, stating “we will add ...

Cue was asked about the effect AI is having on search engine companies like Google and how businesses are struggling to adjust. "People still are going to need toothpaste 20 years from now, 40 ...

Google pays Apple roughly $20 billion a year to set Google Search as the default search engine in its Safari browser. So a drop in Safari searches could mean a drop in Google Search traffic ...

April was the first month search activity on Safari ever slipped, according to Cue. Alphabet stock tanked just more than 7.5%, or $12.40, to $152.80 per share by close.

Apple and Google currently have a mutually beneficial and lucrative deal where Google pays Apple around $20 billion a year to remain the default search engine across all Apple devices.