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No, but Google would be more than happy to put the later on their main search page. Not really any different. Microsoft controls Windows and uses it to advance
by zchrykng 7y ago
No, but Google would be more than happy to put the later on their main search page. Not really any different. Microsoft controls Windows and uses it to advance corporate goals. Google owns their search interface and uses it to advance their corporate goals.
- alxlaz 7y agoWhat does Google have to do with any of this?
- wlesieutre 7y ago>"Still using Edge? Why not just get the original -- Google Chrome is here' Is something Google would totally do. They've been pushing Chrome with the search home page for years.
- zchrykng 7y agoPeople are complaining about Microsoft pushing Edge on Windows. Google pushes Chrome on google.com all the time. Frequently with some negative comment about your current browser. They may be less negative now than what I remember, haven't looked at one in forever.
- alxlaz 7y agoI'm sure Google is shady in this, and many other ways, too, but I really don't see how it's important in this discussion. If Google is doing the same thing then I hope they choke on their Bacardi and Coke, too, but the news is that Microsoft is also doing it now. I'm not sure what the adequate reaction here would have been. Should I have added a "P.S. oh yeah by the way Google is also doing this, don't forget to hate on them, too?" line in my original reply, for completeness?
- jevgeni 7y agoThis is not news, if people here are collectively OK with such behavior if it is done by a company they haven’t been trained to hate.
- tatersolid 7y agoThey push chrome on their search home page. Same thing really.
- Piskvorrr 7y agoThis doesn't look like the 2001 brouhaha over "MS using Windows to peddle IE", nope, nooosir, not at all, honest.
- mr_overalls 7y agoGoogle is free - ads are expected. Microsoft is a paid product. Completely different situations.
- kd913 7y agoI disagree that it's completely different situations. I have not seen anywhere in the legal structure that allows such moves if advertisements are enabled. It is still a company abusing their monopoly situation to influence another market. In fact Google did it worse by blocking browsers purely by user-agent to key google services like maps to block the entry or Fire devices or windows phone devices. Both cases aren't acceptible and both should be punished imho.