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0 pointsbaq11y ago0 comments

for vast majority of people, what's the difference between 'the internet' and 'google homepage'? you can theoretically use something else than google, true, but if you bundle all search engines together and disable every single one of them, the internet for a great majority of the population that has access to it becomes completely useless.

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mbreese11y ago

For the vast majority of people Goolge doesn't control their web browser. For some, yes, but it's only a default for Android or Chromebooks.

Browsers can and do change their defaults whenever they'd like: see Firefox this past week. That's an issue for the browsers, not the search engine. I'm not aware of any browser (sans Chrome) where the default homepage is Google.com.

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