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> “Our best shot at making the quarter is if we get an injection of at least [redacted]% , queries ASAP from Chrome.” (Google Exec)

Isn’t there a whole anti-trust case going on around this?

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/24/business/goog...

Chromium is open source because its roots are as a fork of WebKit (Safari). Which itself was open source because it was a fork of KHTML from KDE.

Google stood on the shoulders of others to get out a browser that drives 80% of their desktop ad revenue.

How does that not affect GOOG?

I don't know why people like yourself respond with such derisive commentary instead of simply asking the constructive question.

Initially? It fueled dethroning MSFT and help gain marketshare for Chrome. On a go-forward basis it allows Google to project massive weight in standards. In extension to its use with Chrome, Chrome is a significant knob for ad revenue that they utilize to help meet expectations. That knob only exists because of its market share.