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Re:Microsoft Edge’s new ‘Buy now, pay later’ feature is the ... by howinteresting on Saturday November 20, 2021 @10:33AM (#29288935)
Chrome itself benefits from being pushed by Google properties, including it being the only ad on the Google homepage. Back in the day it took off in popularity after being bundled with Flash Player.
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Re:Microsoft Edge’s new ‘Buy now, pay later’ feature is the ... by Mikeb85 on Saturday November 20, 2021 @10:54AM (#29289135)
Hah. I'm willing to bet the first thing entered into that majority of non-Chrome desktop browsers is a search for Google Chrome.
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Re:Microsoft Edge’s new ‘Buy now, pay later’ feature is the ... by tentacleuno on Thursday November 25, 2021 @02:44AM (#29339103)
> Hah. I'm willing to bet the first thing entered into that majority of non-Chrome desktop browsers is a search for Google Chrome.

Can you blame them? Especially with the whole Bing stealing search results[0] thing -- that really damaged Microsoft's reputation.

[0]: https://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying...

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