It may be paranoid to believe it's fully and consciously intentional, but it also comes down to general tendency and mindset. Particularly in Chrome, developing

It may be paranoid to believe it's fully and consciously intentional, but it also comes down to general tendency and mindset. Particularly in Chrome, developing a browser for a search company, with search in mind, and investing a lot of time and energy in making the browser "good at search" and integrated well with search, will naturally lead to a search-first mindset in developers, whether intentional or not.