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Microsoft bundled their browser with the OS yet chrome/chromium is the largest browser by market share. People spent 5 minutes downloading and installing anoth
by adrr 3y ago
Microsoft bundled their browser with the OS yet chrome/chromium is the largest browser by market share. People spent 5 minutes downloading and installing another browser. Switching search engines takes 20 seconds. How does defaulting a search engine harm users? Do you users pay more money? Are Google search inferior to other search engines?
Also what happens to Firefox if they can only charge a nominal fee for search engines priority? That is 90% of their revenue.
The way to beat google's search dominance is to build a better search engine. Bing could beat them today if "Browse by bing" didn't take 30+ seconds to get you results. It is vastly superior at finding answers than google search.
- belltaco 3y ago> People spent 5 minutes downloading and installing another browser. Switching search engines takes 20 seconds. Are Google search inferior to other search engines? If that is true then why is Google spending $25 billion with a B per year? Do they like wasting money? Why isn't there a shareholder lawsuit? The real answer is that they want to kill a chance to build competitors or for them to grow. No?
- vkou 3y agoThe real answer is that the browser vendors are abusing their market dominance, to charge incredible amounts of money to search engines in a pay to play scheme.