Google simply saw where Microsoft failed in their Embrace, Extend, Extinguish strategy and figured out a way to do it better. By all accounts, Chrome has a bigg

Google simply saw where Microsoft failed in their Embrace, Extend, Extinguish strategy and figured out a way to do it better. By all accounts, Chrome has a bigger stranglehold on the web than IE ever did, and if you don't use Chrome you'll get a sub-standard experience in most of their products and services. It says as much that Microsoft ditched their own browser engine for Chromium, so even if it's not Chrome it's still Google-driven. Mozilla could have got in front of this by making Gecko/Servo as easy to embed as Chrome, so we'd see more alternative browsers based on Firefox tech.