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Nope, to access play services you have to add the powered by android logo and preinstall a minimum set of required apps (including the google search app), but afaik nothing saying google has to be the default search engine.

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Perhaps that will change in response to this.

But that would be anti-competitive, right?

I agree. Probably. Microsoft got hit for this, although of course changing browser is almost as easy as changing search engine.

The question is: why isn't it anticompetitive to have Bing as the default?

Seems unlikely. Samsung would justifiably paint that as anti-competitive / monopolistic and the last thing Google wants is more scrutiny from various government regulators right now.

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