Is Google the new Microsoft and Microsoft the new Google?
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaXeclS2UNU
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@lunduke You're wrong on a few points. As far as Google bundling browser and OS, Google isn't working from a monopoly position. The Microsoft bundling was far, far worse; not only was it restricting browser use on it's OS, it was also trying to make other browsers unusable. Granted Netscape was also notorious for using non-standard HTML (etal), but it wasn't working from a monopoly position. Google's bundling is more comparable to Apple.
@lunduke On data mining, it's hard to tell how much Microsoft is doing that off of Bing, but in the past (and maybe still in the present) they've mined data from OS installs and Office installs. Given that there's money to be made, I'd bet they're doing it with Bing as well.
Until Google gets to a place where it's they've restricted choice as much as Microsoft has, they're not even 1 times as bad as Microsoft. I can use Firefox without jumping through hoops; I can't say the same for non-Windows.
