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Chrome uses APIs from google.com, Edge/IE use APIs from bing.com. This amazing discovery was in headlines in 2010. A more interesting blast from the past is th

Chrome uses APIs from google.com, Edge/IE use APIs from bing.com. This amazing discovery was in headlines in 2010. A more interesting blast from the past is the practice of capturing the search phrase in your browser sent to a competing search engine, and then noting the next visited page in your browser. This essentially captured the user's preferred link from your competitor's SERP (Search Engine Results Page), which led to legal challenges about search copying.

kccqzy 3y ago
Using an API does not mean sending URLs of every web page. I'm quite certain Chrome does not do that by default. There are a number of settings in Chrome that you can change to send URLs of every web page to Google, such as turning on history sync, the checkbox for "making searches better" or the "enhanced safe browsing" checkbox. None of that is enabled by default in a new installation of Chrome.
ColinHayhurst 3y ago
> the practice of capturing the search phrase in your browser sent to a competing search engine, and then noting the next visited page in your browser. This essentially captured the user's preferred link from your competitor's SERP what about today, and for browsers not from Microsoft and Google, that are also offering search?
- jacooper 3y ago
  Brave has its own search
  - KomoD 3y ago
    Meanwhile Brave redirected people to referral links instead :)
    - jacooper 3y ago
      Which was a mistake that was fixed.
Tepix 3y ago
> This amazing discovery was in headlines in 2010. It is still unacceptable for many.