⁍ Google started declaring quarterly auction results from March to offer users three providers alongside Google.

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⁍ Bing won the rights in 13 countries, Puerto Rico-based PrivacyWall in 22 countries and U.S.-based Info.com got all 31 countries.

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⁍ Other winners included independent search engine DuckDuckGo, Germany’s GMX and Russian internet giant Yandex YNDX.O

– Users of new Android devices in 31 European countries will now see three search engines alongside Google at the top of the search page. Microsoft’s Bing, PrivacyWall, and Info.com were among the winners in a quarterly Google auction that began in March, Reuters reports. Users will see the results on a “choice screen” on their new Android devices. “In developing the choice screen for Europe, we carefully balanced providing users with yet more choice while ensuring that we can continue to invest in developing and maintaining the open-source Android platform for the long-term,” a Google spokeswoman says. Independent search engine DuckDuckGo, which won the auction in eight countries, criticized the process, saying it encouraged bidders to exploit users. “Google’s auction further incentivizes search engines to be worse on privacy, to increase ads, and to not donate to good causes, because, if they do those things, then they could afford to bid higher,” DuckDuckGo said in a blog post.