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Yep. Google also offers a lot of "rich cards" in their search (interactive things mostly) that are only available on Chrome .. unless you change the user agent of another browser to Chrome, in which case it also works perfectly.



IANAL but would not that be grounds for abuse of dominant position? Using their dominance in web search to undercut competing browser vendors?


Chrome accounts for ~70% of browser use. It is a majority, but it's not total dominance.

For reference, IE accounted for ~96% of browser use when that whole antitrust case was happening.


Ah, but the point was about using "their dominance in web search to undercut competing browser vendors".

In this case, ~90% of web searches go through Google[0]. So they are using the fact that they are the number one web search engine to convince users to switch to Google Chrome.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/216573/worldwide-market-...


Ah, true, thanks for pointing that out.


@ccmcarey: “Chrome accounts for ~70% of browser use”

That would be Microsoft Chrome :]


Google actually seems to show those to me occasionally in Safari.




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