<story><title>Chrome beats IE market share for one day</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/22/chrome_number_one_for_a_day/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>AznHisoka</author><text>As much as I like Chrome, the increase in Chrome&apos;s share also means more people will be using Google by default.. and their search dominance scares me. Consumer web startups can literally die overnight if Google penalizes them(google &quot;TeachStreet&quot;), or if their Adwords account got banned for some unknown reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TheCoreh</author><text>When you first install Google Chrome, you&apos;re presented with the choice of search engine.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m pretty sure 99% choose Google not because they are already using Chrome, but because they probably trust or know Google more than Bing or Yahoo.&lt;p&gt;From my experience, IE users will usually either ignore the Bing search field, type &quot;google.com&quot; in and search manually, or change the search provider to Google anyway.&lt;p&gt;I would also speculate that a very large portion of Chrome users has no idea that the address bar is also a search field. They probably type in &quot;google.com&quot; manually every time.&lt;p&gt;If Bing, Yahoo or anyone else provides a more compelling search experience, these users will switch.</text></comment>
<story><title>Chrome beats IE market share for one day</title><url>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/22/chrome_number_one_for_a_day/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>AznHisoka</author><text>As much as I like Chrome, the increase in Chrome&apos;s share also means more people will be using Google by default.. and their search dominance scares me. Consumer web startups can literally die overnight if Google penalizes them(google &quot;TeachStreet&quot;), or if their Adwords account got banned for some unknown reason.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonknee</author><text>Perhaps, but that&apos;s mostly because people prefer Google. When you install Chrome it pops up asking what search engine you would like to use. What should Google do differently? Microsoft hides the default search provider in the initial setup behind a &quot;choose custom settings&quot; button.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://nyacomputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/chrome-setup-page-1.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://nyacomputing.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/chrome-se...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;vs&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://static.arstechnica.com/ie8_search.png&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://static.arstechnica.com/ie8_search.png&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>