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> Google's snarky messages would invite people to download Chrome Actually, I'm surprised Google hasn't tried anything like this yet. Given how many ie6'ers us

• param 17y ago
  This could probably be considered anti-competitive (using their search monopoly to push their other products). Even though the courts may rule their way, why should they bother?
  • cabalamat 17y ago
    > This could probably be considered anti-competitive It could be, but I don't think it is. Every other browser supplier has the right to -- and does -- put up web pages suggesting people use their browser; they also have the right to put up other content on their websites, which may or may not drive traffic to them. I note that the Microsoft home page has an ad for IE8 on it, and this isn't anti-competitive either. Jusdt because Google is successful, doesn't mean they're anti-competitive. Now if they fiddled with their web site so other people's browsers didn't work properly, or fiddled with their browser so other people's websites were poorly rendered, that would be uncompetitive.
• Kadin 17y ago
  A few days ago I loaded up IE6 on a company machine (to download Firefox, natch) and noticed that Google displays a message on the main page, in a box in the upper-right corner, encouraging me to download Chrome. It doesn't seem to appear using any other browser. So they're getting pretty close to doing that; perhaps less obtrusively than you suggest, but the intent is there.