(Reuters) -Samsung Electronics will not change the default search engine on its smartphones from Google to Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT)'s Bing any time soon, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Samsung (KS:005930) has suspended an internal review that explored replacing Google with Bing on its web-browsing app, which comes pre-installed on the company's smartphones, according to the report.
Google and Samsung did not respond to Reuters requests for comment. Microsoft declined to comment.
A sizable part of the revenue earned by search-engine companies comes from their long-term partnerships with phone makers such as Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Xiaomi (OTC:XIACF).
Google earns an estimated $3 billion in annual revenue from the Samsung contract, according to an April 16 report by the New York Times.
Samsung considering a potential shift to Bing was first reported last month and had weighed on Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL)'s shares at the time.
The integration of OpenAI's artificial intelligence technology into Microsoft-owned Bing has driven people to the little-used search engine and helped it compete better with market leader Google in page visits growth, according to data from analytics firm Similarweb (NYSE:SMWB).