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Google owns the world's most popular web browser, the world's largest advertising network, the world's biggest search engine, the world's most popular operating system, and some of the world's most popular websites.

Their hold on these claims are extremely tenuous. No one would be surprised if Firefox, Bing, or iOS resurged and killed Google’s offering, for example.

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I’d be a lot surprised if Firefox dethroned chrome or Bing became the dominant search engine.

The only circumstance where I wouldn’t be surprised would involve regulatory action I see as an outside chance.

Microsoft is way too busy shooting themselves in the foot with Bing and OpenAI along with telemetry and all the tracking/dark pattern crap they do on Windows or any of their offerings.

They're quite happy scrambling for the crumbs as it is.

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