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Yes but without Chrome, Google wouldn't have 90% search market share that they have today. They are completely dominating the WWW industry.
by mrkramer 2y ago
Yes but without Chrome, Google wouldn't have 90% search market share that they have today. They are completely dominating the WWW industry.
- jervant 2y agoSurely making deals with companies like Apple and Mozilla to be the default search engine was a big part of building that market share. How many iPhone users bother to set a different search engine in Safari?
- attendant3446 2y agoHow easy is it to set a different search engine in Safari (apart from a very few predefined options)? =)
- pjc50 2y agoI'm not convinced; early on they actually had a better product with better UI and better search results.
- bee_rider 2y agoYeah. I have no data but my gut says, if anything, they couldn’t have gotten this bad at search without Chrome.
- thereddaikon 2y agoGoogle won the search market on merit but they've maintained it with Chrome. Google search has been garbage for a long time and in the last few years it's gotten bad enough that even laymen are noticing it.
- bee_rider 2y agoIs that true? I seem to remember Google dominating search all the way back in 2010 (before Chrome really caught on).
- eastbound 2y agoWe all agree Google-the-search-engine is losing relevance (literally). So they should also lose their distribution channel, Chrome, because being nagged until you synchronize your Chrome profile and use their search engine is anti-competitive, on top of being pretentious from a less-relevant search engine.