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No. They are being punished for unfairly limiting competitiveness with repeated monopolistic practices affecting the browser/search markets relation.

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But they only have high market share because people want to use Google instead of the competitors. Many consumers switch their search engine to Google when presented with other defaults. Because Google search works the best and people know that.

The aggressive marketing of Chrome on Google Search website to users using other browsers was a significant part of Chrome adoption success.

And no - some people didn't willingly and consciously switched to their search engine. It was pushed down their throats by browser vendors being paid-off by Google for setting it as the default one. Mozilla has overwritten user-changed search engine setting in Firefox with several updates.

Non tech-savvy users simply accept changes made in software they use.

I don't know if you remember but it was just a few years ago that using search engines like bing was a shameful meme.

Nowadays using Google Search is, since they pivoted from from being a "search company" to "adtech company" which resulted in the degradation of Google Search quality.

"Engines like Bing" is an ambiguous term. There are better options than Bing.

When by far the most generous reading of a post is that it’s a low-effort troll, I’d recommend ignoring the poster entirely.

So then why do they pay Apple $25,000,000,000 a year to default search to Google?

Because they have the money and Apple wants them to pay. Why should Google let a competitor pay a lesser amount to be the default?

Because $25 billion is a large amount of money and you just made the claim that people would use Google regardless

Thanks for putting up the good fight, but parent is not arguing from a place of logic.

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