> I'm still surprised by this. What you are observing is the same thing that got Microsoft in anti-trust trouble back in the days, but which is now being done

> I'm still surprised by this. What you are observing is the same thing that got Microsoft in anti-trust trouble back in the days, but which is now being done web-scale instead of desktop-scale by Google. Also, Google is/was bundling Chrome as a drive-by installation with lots of other popular downloads, so less competent users got their (other) browsers replaced by Chrome, possibly without knowing.