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I would say that the technological barrier exists for google just like with IE and MSFT: Google is the default browser in Firefox + Chrome. The IE solution was
by rtpg 12y ago
I would say that the technological barrier exists for google just like with IE and MSFT: Google is the default browser in Firefox + Chrome.
The IE solution was to offer an explicit browser choice in EU versions of windows. A similar one could be imagined here. The "solution" would be to disallow Google from making an exclusivity agreement with FF and to have a choice screen in Chrome. Unfortunately this would cause immense harm to Mozilla...
- dghf 12y agoFirefox has just switched its default search engine to Yahoo: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2850152/yahoo-dethrones-google-as-default-firefox-search-tool.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/2850152/yahoo-dethrones-googl... So maybe not so much harm to Mozilla.
- kyrra 12y agoOnly in the US. In the EU it sounds like the default is still Google.
- bad_user 12y ago> The IE solution was to offer an explicit browser choice in EU versions of windows. And what did that solve, really? > to disallow Google from making an exclusivity agreement with FF They do not have an exclusive agreement with Firefox and in Firefox Google's Search is only the default, not the only one. Mozilla is also switching to Yahoo as the default in the US, Yandex in Russia and other local search engines where it applies. That doesn't sound exclusive to me.