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[๐Ÿ”ฅHot off the Feed] Appleโ€™s Quiet Search Shakeup: What Happens When the Default Changes?

The $20B Time Bomb: Why Apple and Googleโ€™s Search Deal Is Under Fire

์• ํ”Œ์˜ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ํŒ ํ”๋“ค๊ธฐ: '๊ธฐ๋ณธ๊ฐ’'์ด ๋ฐ”๋€” ๋•Œ ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ์ผ 200์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์งœ๋ฆฌ ์‹œํ•œํญํƒ„ : ์• ํ”Œ๊ณผ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์˜ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ์—”์ง„ ํ˜‘์•ฝ์ด ์™œ ๋ฌธ์ œ์‹œ ๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€?

*Context Boosters (ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ฝ์–ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”)

๐Ÿ“Œ Context is King

Apple has reportedly explored shifting away from Google as the default search engine on its devices, considering alternatives like Bing and DuckDuckGo. Testimonies from Appleโ€™s Services VP Eddy Cue suggest the company has evaluated other search enginesโ€™ viability multiple times over the past decade, especially in light of growing AI capabilities.

์• ํ”Œ์ด ์ž์‚ฌ ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์—์„œ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ์—”์ง„์œผ๋กœ ์„ค์ •๋œ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์„ ๋Œ€์ฒดํ•  ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ์„ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•ด์˜จ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Bing๊ณผ DuckDuckGo ๊ฐ™์€ ๋Œ€์•ˆ๋“ค์ด ๊ณ ๋ ค๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์• ํ”Œ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ ์—๋”” ํ(Eddy Cue)์˜ ์ฆ์–ธ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์• ํ”Œ์€ ์ง€๋‚œ 10์—ฌ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฐจ๋ก€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ์—”์ง„์˜ ์‹คํšจ์„ฑ์„ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•ด ์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํŠนํžˆ AI ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ทธ ๋…ผ์˜๊ฐ€ ํ™œ๋ฐœํ•ด์กŒ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Notably, in 2022, Google paid Apple $20 billion to remain the default search engine on Safari, accounting for approximately 18% of Apple's operating income. This substantial payment underscores the significance of the default search engine position and is a central focus in the ongoing antitrust lawsuit against Google.

ํŠนํžˆ 2022๋…„, ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์€ ์• ํ”Œ์˜ Safari ๋ธŒ๋ผ์šฐ์ €์—์„œ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ์—”์ง„ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์• ํ”Œ์— 200์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ง€๋ถˆํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์• ํ”Œ์˜ ์šด์˜ ์ˆ˜์ต์˜ ์•ฝ 18%์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธˆ์•ก์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ฑฐ์•ก์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ์—”์ง„ ์ž๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋‹จ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋ฉฐ, ํ˜„์žฌ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฐ˜๋…์  ์†Œ์†ก์—์„œ๋„ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์Ÿ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ค„์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงฉ IYKYK(If you know, you know)

  • Deal-Driven Discovery (๊ณ„์•ฝ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ ๊ตฌ์กฐ)
    When the visibility of online content is influenced more by corporate partnerships than by relevance or quality.
    โ†’ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ์—์„œ ์ •๋ณด๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์—๊ฒŒ ๋„๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด โ€˜์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ์˜ ํ’ˆ์งˆโ€™๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” โ€˜๊ธฐ์—… ๊ฐ„ ๊ณ„์•ฝโ€™์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ฒฐ์ •๋˜๋Š” ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ๋””ํดํŠธ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์ด ๊ทธ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์  ์˜ˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (*์ตœ๊ทผ ๋„ค์ด๋ฒ„ ์ง€๋„์—์„œ๋„ ์ž์ฃผ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์Šคํฐ์„œ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ๋…ธ์ถœ์ด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์˜ˆ์‹œ)

  • Invisible Defaults (๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๊ฐ’)
    Settings that users rarely notice but have profound influence on behavior, choice, and exposure.
    โ†’ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋“ค์ด ์ธ์‹ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์„ ํƒ๊ณผ ํ–‰๋™์— ์ง€๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์„ค์ •๊ฐ’์„ ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€˜๊ธฐ๋ณธ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰์—”์ง„โ€™์€ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ธ ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • Search Neutrality (๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ์ค‘๋ฆฝ์„ฑ)
    The idea that search engines should not unfairly favor certain content, companies, or data sources.
    โ†’ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ์—”์ง„์ด ํŠน์ • ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ ๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ์—…, ์ถœ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ํŽธํ–ฅ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์šฐ์„  ๋…ธ์ถœํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฐœ๋…์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ์„ค์ •์˜ ๋น„์ค‘์ด ์ปค์งˆ์ˆ˜๋ก ์ด ์ค‘๋ฆฝ์„ฑ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์กฐ๋ช…๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿง  In Focus

Appleโ€™s exploration of search alternatives signals more than corporate strategyโ€”it hints at a deeper realignment in the power structures of the internet. As AI reshapes how we find information, control over the default has never been more valuable.

์• ํ”Œ์˜ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ์—”์ง„ ์žฌ๊ฒ€ํ† ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์ „๋žต ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. AI๊ฐ€ ์ •๋ณด ํƒ์ƒ‰ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๋ฉด์„œ, '๊ธฐ๋ณธ๊ฐ’'์˜ ํ†ต์ œ๊ถŒ์€ ์–ด๋А ๋•Œ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ž์‚ฐ์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

If Apple switches defaults in an AI-first world, it could trigger a billion-user shift in behaviorโ€”and rewrite the economics of digital attention.

AI ์ค‘์‹ฌ์˜ ์„ธ์ƒ์—์„œ ์• ํ”Œ์ด ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ์—”์ง„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๊ฐ’์„ ๋ฐ”๊พผ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ด๋Š” ์ˆ˜์–ต ๋ช…์˜ ํ–‰๋™ ํŒจํ„ด์„ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๊ณ  โ€˜๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์ฃผ์˜๋ ฅโ€™ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์˜ ๊ณต์‹์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์“ฐ๋Š” ๊ณ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ—ฃ How They Talk About It

๐Ÿ“Œ search realignment(๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ํŒจ๊ถŒ ์žฌํŽธ)
โ€œAppleโ€™s search realignment could break Googleโ€™s dominance in a heartbeat.โ€
โ€œ์• ํ”Œ์˜ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ํŒ ํ”๋“ค๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์˜ ๋…์ ์„ ํ•œ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์— ๋ฌด๋„ˆ๋œจ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๐Ÿ“Œ AI-native search(AI ๋„ค์ดํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰)
โ€œThe future is AI-native search, not keyword listings.โ€
โ€œ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋Š” ํ‚ค์›Œ๋“œ ๋‚˜์—ด์ด ์•„๋‹Œ AI ๋„ค์ดํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๐Ÿ“Œ default control(๊ธฐ๋ณธ๊ฐ’ ์žฅ์•…)
โ€œControlling the default means controlling the user journey.โ€
โ€œ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๊ฐ’์„ ์žฅ์•…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์˜ ์—ฌ์ •์„ ํ†ต์ œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๐Ÿ“Œ deal diplomacy(๋”œ ์™ธ๊ต)
โ€œBig Tech companies are engaging in deal diplomacy over default settings.โ€
โ€œ๋น…ํ…Œํฌ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ์„ค์ •์„ ๋‘๊ณ  ์™ธ๊ต์ „ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ˜‘์ƒ์„ ๋ฒŒ์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๐Ÿ“Œ attention architecture(๊ด€์‹ฌ ํ๋ฆ„ ๊ตฌ์กฐ)
โ€œAppleโ€™s choices shape the architecture of digital attention.โ€
โ€œ์• ํ”Œ์˜ ์„ ํƒ์€ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์—์„œ ๊ด€์‹ฌ ํ๋ฆ„ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ์„ค๊ณ„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โ€

๐Ÿงญ Discourse Watch

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States

American media sees Appleโ€™s move as a challenge to Googleโ€™s monopoly, especially amid antitrust pressures. Conversations increasingly center on AI search futures and user data flows.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์–ธ๋ก ์€ ์• ํ”Œ์˜ ์›€์ง์ž„์„ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€ ๋…์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋„์ „์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด์„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํŠนํžˆ AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰๊ณผ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ํ๋ฆ„์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๋…ผ์˜๊ฐ€ ํ™œ๋ฐœํ•ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท South Korea

In South Korea, discussions focus more on Apple's AI strategy than the change in default search engines. Analysts suggest that this could impact the competitive landscape involving domestic search platforms like Naver and Kakao.

ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰์ฐฝ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ณด๋‹ค ์• ํ”Œ์˜ AI ์ „๋žต์— ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์ด ์ง‘์ค‘๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋„ค์ด๋ฒ„ยท์นด์นด์˜ค ๋“ฑ ๊ตญ๋‚ด ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ๊ณผ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ๊ตฌ๋„์—๋„ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ถ„์„์ด ๋‚˜์˜ต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐ŸŽฌ Outro

In the world of AI search, changing the default isnโ€™t just a settings tweakโ€”itโ€™s a declaration of power.

AI ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰ ์‹œ๋Œ€์—์„œ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๊ฐ’์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์„ค์ • ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ ์„ ์–ธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“… February 2014 โ€“ Appleโ€™s first test replacing Google with Bing on Siri Back then, it was a quiet experiment. In 2025, the stakes are much higher.

๐Ÿ“… 2014๋…„ 2์›” โ€“ ์• ํ”Œ์ด Siri ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰์—”์ง„์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ๊ธ€ ๋Œ€์‹  Bing์„ ์‹œํ—˜ ์ ์šฉ ๊ทธ๋•Œ๋Š” ์กฐ์šฉํ•œ ์‹คํ—˜์ด์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, 2025๋…„ ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ํŒ์ด ๋‹ค๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿงพ Sources

  1. โ€œTikTok Ban Bill Passed by U.S. Congressโ€ (Reuters, 2024)

  2. โ€œByteDanceโ€™s Dilemma: Sell or Die?โ€ (Bloomberg, 2024)

  3. โ€œWhy TikTokโ€™s Algorithms Terrify Washingtonโ€ (The Atlantic, 2023)

  4. โ€œThe U.S.-China Tech Cold Warโ€ (The Guardian, 2024)

  5. โ€œTikTok and the New Digital Sovereignty Debateโ€ (WIRED, 2023)

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