Alphabet shares fall on report Samsung may dump Google Search for Bing


FILE PHOTO The Google logo is pictured atop an office building in Irvine California U.S. August 7 2017.   REUTERSMike BlakeFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: The Google logo is pictured atop an office building in Irvine, California, U.S. August 7, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

(Reuters) -Alphabet Inc shares fell as much as 4% on Monday following a report South Korea's Samsung Electronics was considering replacing Google with Microsoft-owned Bing as the default search engine on its devices.

The report, published by the New York Times over the weekend, underscores the growing challenges Google's $162-billion-a-year search engine business face from Bing - a minor player that has risen in prominence recently after the integration of the artificial intelligence tech behind ChatGPT.

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