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It's crazy considering even if Apple switched default search engines I'm sure a lot of users would switch back to Google.

You are sure...but Google is placing a $3,000,000,000 bet against your word. Maybe they're losing money the deal to moat their castle, but who knows.

As a side note: If the government worked correctly, Google would not have been allowed to buy market share, monopoly and all.

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I suspect Google wants to keep it away from MS more than anything. With Bing down to 2.5% market share they do not have the revs to invest. That is why Bing is so bad compared to Google on mobile.

http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share Search engine market share Worldwide | StatCounter Global Stats

> As a side note: If the government worked correctly, Google would not have been allowed to buy market share, monopoly and all.

Do you also think government should prevent Google from paying Mozilla to be the default search engine in Firefox?

> Do you also think government should prevent Google from paying Mozilla to be the default search engine in Firefox?

Yes I do. And for the same reason I'd oppose Verizon or ATT buying everyone else.

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