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>The power of the defaults benefits google.com much better than it benefits Microsoft with browsers.

And that's simply because the delta between Google and the competition in search is greater than the delta between Microsoft and its competition in browsers

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Right, so if your product is the default offering, and you're already the most popular, the competition has its legs cut out from under them.

Granted, the power of the defaults is usually strongest in the context of random settings in a product that end users don't know anything about. Search engines are something most people know at least something about by now.