Google is in the crosshairs of US antitrust regulators who accuse it of wrongdoing similar to charges Microsoft faced 22 years ago. That pledge is now a distant memory as Google confronts an existential threat similar to what Microsoft once faced. Google behaved "like a teenager for a very long time, but now they are all grown up. They focused on creating a database of everything on the internet through a search engine that almost instantaneously listed a pecking order of websites most likely to have what anyone wanted. Google's promotion of Chrome on its search engine helped the browser supplant Explorer as the market leader.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 20, 2020 21:33 UTC