Samsung Electronics has suspended an internal review that was considering changing the default search engine on its smartphones from Google to Microsoft's Bing. The potential switch would have replaced Google as the go-to search engine on Samsung's "Internet" web-browsing app, which comes preinstalled on the South Korean company's smartphones. However, concerns over how the switch could be perceived by the market and its impact on Samsung's business relations with Google led to a decision not to further discuss the matter at this time. Samsung shipped roughly 260 million smartphones last year, accounting for roughly one-fifth of the worldwide total.
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