So now you have the Chrome team with an even more direct incentive to maximize search volumes at the expense of a good product since that's their revenue source too.

That would be a good thing if it drove people away...

After the WEI incident chrome is pretty dang tainted to me.

I'm mostly salty that chromium made Opera go from the wonderful Presto engine to being yet another chromium clone...

> I'm mostly salty that chromium made Opera go from the wonderful Presto engine to being yet another chromium clone...

I do not know this story. How did the Chromium team force Opera to change rendering engines?

The same way Microsoft was forced to change to Chromium for Edge - Google forcing Chromium-specific features through the standardization process at a rate exhausting for Microsoft (or any other browser engine implementor) to follow in time without popular sites breaking.

This doesn't seem to be an issue for Firefox which is in the same boat.

> Chrome would find revenue instantly the same way Firefox and Safari do

As in, Chrome decoupled from Google should have 90% of revenue coming from Google/Alphabet, as Mozilla does?

90% < 100%. It is, at the very least, a start.

The world you are suggesting, where intermediary platforms take all of the revenue out of the information systems, would not be a good one.

This is pretty ironic given that you are talking about browsers taking revenue away google, which is an intermediary platform taking all the ad revenue from various publishers ...

Bing could bid for it