Google Chrome - Antitrust?
I can almost hear the anti-trust whining starting. With a free browser Google will no longer have to pay browser vendors (i.e. Firefox) big bucks to have Google be the default search engine.
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September 7th, 2008 at 7:39 am
How would regulators make the case that Google has an unfair monopoly in web browsers? Market share of Chrome is likely to be in the single digits for some time to come.
September 8th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
The anti-trust whiners (can you tell my bias) would claim “Unfair competition” because the free web browser supports googles other servies, like search. Just like Microsoft’s free browser bundled free on their OS distributions was “unfair competition” for Netscape. If you were yahoo or Microsoft (well, Microsoft tends not to whine about anti-trust - they compete) you could whine “On the big nasty google has their own browser that directs search to their own service. They should put a link to our browser on their web site!”).
Time will tell.