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"""99% of FF users would just switch to Google as soon as they install it. I assume you can back that up somehow? Most evidence I've seen indicates that the majority of people don't change defaults."""" Then the evidence you've seen is wrong. If people "don't change defaults" how come they switched to FF in the first place, which is not the default browser on Windows, but is (or rather, was until it lost to Chrome) a…
So is your argument that Google should have paid nothing to be the default search engine, because people will switch, or is it that $300 million is an appropriate about for the 1% that won't change the default? (Btw, why do you quote like that? HN docs on formatting are here: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc )
No, "my argument" was on the topic of the comment I specifically responded to.
You know, where you said that by getting the FF default search && making your own search engine, you'll "profit". To which I responded something akin to: "bollocks --even if you do that, FF users will just switch search engine back to Google".
It wasn't that hard to follow, check it again.
"""(Btw, why do you quote like that? HN docs on formatting are here: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc)
Ever noticed how the "HN docs on formatting" say NOTHING about quoting?
"Italics", which you use, is not for quoting is for emphasis. Other people use your method, other people use ">", I use mine.