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Re:Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Offi... by giancarlostoro on Thursday January 23, 2020 @12:48PM (#22129796)
> This tool also integrated after configuration with the browser which issued an invocation to localhost to integrate local search results.

They had a similar tool to make some sites load faster. I suspect they embedded some of that to Chrome at some point.

Edit:

It was Google Web Accelerator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Web_Accelerator

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