Maybe it’s not bias, but flawed input.
Google search results:
“Apple retakes market cap lead” 27,400
“Apple takes market cap lead” 4.3 million
Change Apple to Google and the numbers are about 20% higher, but consistent in the relative difference between results using “retakes” vs. using “takes”.
So, if you search for “retakes” for one company and “takes” for another, of course you’re going to see a big difference (which seemed obvious even before I tested).
You don’t really expect to see anything objective on this subject come out of Mac Daily News, do you?
Gee...you mean by fudging with the search query until the results fit the agenda they can advance their cause? Why, color me surprised!
That would be including the two previous times that Apple took the market cap lead, not the current time. The RETAKE is the keyword that is important here, not that Apple took it originally. It was big news when Apple took the lead from Exxon/Mobil several years ago. The point here is that Alphabet/Google was touted as big news and they were saying it was going to be the first Trillion dollar company, now that it was speeding away from AAPL. It held that lead for less than 24 hours because their Financials were cooked to do it.