If Apple replaces Google with Microsoft’s Bing as the default iPhone search engine, it will sting, according to online ad network Chitika, which says Google searches account for 50.5 percent of all Internet traffic on the iPhone. BusinessWeek recently reported that Apple and Microsoft are discussing replacing Google with Bing as the iPhone’s search provider. With $2 billion in profit from its recent fourth quarter and $24.5 billion in the bank, Google may not have to worry about money now. But will that still be true in a few years if Bing supplants its search engine on the leading smartphone?
– Microsoft’s Bing will indeed gouge Google if Apple taps it to replace Google
as the default search engine for its iPhone, according to a study by online ad
network Chitika, which found that Google searches account for 50.5 percent of
all Internet traffic on the iPhone.
Chitika Research Director…