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		shmde on Sept 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Tyranny of the Marginal User > Nobody uses Google because they have to, they use it because it is the best. Oh yeah, you sure its not because its the default browser on Android ?

xcdzvyn on Sept 14, 2023 [–]

Internet Explorer's market share was 65% in 2009. In 2015, just before its slated deprecation to Edge, it was 19%. That isn't because it wasn't the default, it's because it wasn't good enough.

If Google Search, as the default search engine of Android, wasn't good enough, nobody would use it.

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