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Pardon me for my ignorance, isn't this somewhat considered to be some form of anti-trust behavior? If not, why does Google Chrome ask you to pick Google, Bing
by vicngtor 15y ago
Pardon me for my ignorance, isn't this somewhat considered to be some form of anti-trust behavior?
If not, why does Google Chrome ask you to pick Google, Bing or Yahoo at the first use?
- exterm 15y agoIt's included in the list, not as default search provider.
- perokreco 15y agoBecause Google owns both the browser and the search engine, and could use position in one market to gain a large advantage in another. Opera is neither a market leader nor it owns DDG. Moreover there is no such thing as anti-trust behavior, anti-trust is a legislation/action( the anti in its name ) that is aimed to stop such behaviour.
- dangrossman 15y agoTo abuse monopoly power you must first have monopoly power to abuse. Opera has no monopoly on desktop browsers.
- dorian-graph 15y agodangrossman has given an adequate explanation though I have a question? Why couldn't the Opera people make it the default search engine? It's their piece of software and you're free to change it to anything you want. People seem so quick to cry wolf.
- skylan_q 15y agoFrom what I understand, most of their revenue for the desktop browser comes from the fact that google is the default search engine.
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- guard-of-terra 15y agoThat's probably their way of cat-playing with their food. Also, they probably remember how microsoft was forced to carry a load of different browsers in EU and make WMP-free windows, so they take some steps to prevent that for themselves. Also they used to disable this selector on per-country basis.
- vicngtor 15y agoReally? Downvoting me for asking a question in possibly the most polite and non-ignorant manner? I know this is hacker-news, but do you guys really have to get into this anti-big company behavior?