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Ask HN: Why is the browser battle so important?
Why is the browser battle so important? Why are Google, Apple, Mozilla, Opera and Microsoft investing so much into it? It is offered as a free product.
- oblee 16y agoBrilliant marketing tools Licensing and legal saving Influence
- a1g 16y agohe who controls the browser controls the browsing of the internet
- byoung2 16y agoA lot of it has to do with search revenue. For example, Google pays big bucks to be the start page for FireFox (and they used to for Opera as well). Microsoft wants every browser to open to Bing.