How often do you see a browser icon on your desktop? Yep, it's always there in the task bar or the dock, but it's not your focus. Now, how many times do you se

How often do you see a browser icon on your desktop? Yep, it's always there in the task bar or the dock, but it's not your focus. Now, how many times do you search for things on web? Every search page and search results page had a call to action to install Chrome. It's the only product Google advertised on their home page for years. The download was tiny (it downloaded the rest of the app in background), it did not require admin rights to install and hijacked the default browser setting. Plus Google put aggressive ads on YouTube, in Gmail, Maps and Docs at the time. One click on a banner, you browser showed a dialog - and bam! You got Chrome. Plus, there were bundles with Flash player, Skype, all popular antivirus freeware, etc. In 2010-2014 it was almost impossible not to have Chrome on one's computer on accident. And many banner ads in major cities around the world. London underground was flooded with Chrome banners - something no other browser had done before or since.