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Summary: Google is complaining loudly that Microsoft has made their own search engine, MSN Search, the default search engine for Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) - well they would now, wouldn't they? This despite the fact that Google is the default search engine for Firefox, Safari and Opera.

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Despite being the default search engine for the increasingly popular Firefox web browser, as well as Opera, and Safari, which is the default browser of the Mac community, Google is complaining - loudly - about Microsoft making the new Microsoft search engine, MSN Search, the default search engine for Internet Explorer 7 (IE7).

So, it’s ok for Google to be the default search engine in several popular browsers, but not ok for Microsoft to make their own search engine the default in their own product?

Get over it. Did you go from being the “do no evil” company to being the “do no thinking” company?

And by all accounts, Google isn’t just complaining to the industry - they have actually gone to the Justice Department and the European Commission with their complaint!

That’s just…wrong.

While it seemed over the top for Verizon Senior VP John Thorne to say of Google that their desire to continue to access consumers over Verizon’s cables for free demonstrated that Google had drunk “spiked Kool-aid,” one does have to wonder what is in the Google water supply.

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4 Comments »

I really don’t understand why Google is pissing and moaning. They’re already the default in *all* the other major browsers.

I think Google’s services are the best out there but they cannot have it all. If Google had their own browsers you can bet your last dollar that their search engine would be the default. Why cannot Mircosoft do the same?

Comment by Dan — 5/4/2006 @ 6:05 pm
I imagine they’re pissed because IE has about 90% of the market share still. But really, what do they expect? Of course MS is going to make MSN search the default in their browser. Now, if they were making it the only option, which is a MS-like move, that might warrant complaint.

Comment by Ian — 7/31/2006 @ 5:50 am
There is somthing wrong with safari .. it’s not opening the messenger thing of gmail ….not at all showing the list of online people .. what kind of problem is this ..

Comment by Abhijeet Upadhyay — 6/28/2007 @ 2:53 am
Help. I’ve gone back to IE6 but it’s made MSN my default search engine now instead of Google. I want Google but can’t change it! How can I please?

Comment by Janine — 5/17/2008 @ 7:22 pm

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