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> We just drank the cool aid and clicked "install". That's misrepresenting the search market's reality though. For most people, they never clicked install.

• kreeben 6y ago
  In 2008 there wasn't a need to click "install"? What OS were you on that provided Google Chrome seamlessly?
  • mhermher 6y ago
    No, it was snuck in with Java updates (or maybe Flash?). Unless you spotted the correct checked-by-default option.
  • cbsmith 6y ago
    Chrome wasn't released until September of 2008. Initial adoption was around 1% in 2008. I was referring to search engines, though the same was true for browsers. Deals were cut with distribution channels to have browsers pre-installed and to have certain browsers and search engines as the default. The overwhelming majority of people would use the default. In fact, a lot of the benefit of releasing Chrome was that it became another distribution channel that would default to Google as the search engine.
• nl 6y ago
  > That's misrepresenting the search market's reality though. For most people, they never clicked install. The author was talking about Chrome.
  • cbsmith 6y ago
    On the other hand, the author's statement flies in the face of the reality that Chrome's market share at the end of the year was ~1%. ;-)
    • nl 6y ago
      Chrome was launched in Sep 2008. It's really, really hard to move market share quickly.
      • cbsmith 6y ago
        It absolutely is. I'm not suggesting that Chrome was a failure by any means. I'm suggesting that it was far from a broad phenomenon that people just clicked "install" when Google launched it.