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Does that mean when I pull out my iPhone to search, Google will no longer work?

Bring on bing I suppose

Who knows. Google is almost certainly bluffing, they wouldn’t pull search from Australia. Especially if that meant conceding the entire market to Bing.

People said the same about Google News in Spain and here we are, Google News doesn't exist anymore in Spain.

So has the behaviour of people changed?

Do they go directly to the news sites or to Bing?

It has changed to favour traditional big papers instead of smaller ones, since yes people go directly to the bigger sites now. Barely anyone goes or even knows what Bing is in Spain.

Eh, they were willing to pull out of China.

And there's plenty of other countries that would be eager to get money out of Google if Australia shows a method that works.

Of course, China didn't fold when Google pulled out so it's questionable whether they consider that a winning strategy or not.

On a slightly related note I really wish that Microsoft would have done with mobile what they did with edge. A Microsoft branded aosp with Microsoft services.

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