> We just drank the cool aid and clicked "install".
That's misrepresenting the search market's reality though. For most people, they never clicked install.
That's misrepresenting the search market's reality though. For most people, they never clicked install.
The author was talking about Chrome.
It's really, really hard to move market share quickly.
I was referring to search engines, though the same was true for browsers. Deals were cut with distribution channels to have browsers pre-installed and to have certain browsers and search engines as the default. The overwhelming majority of people would use the default. In fact, a lot of the benefit of releasing Chrome was that it became another distribution channel that would default to Google as the search engine.