"Google wanted leverage over the carriers to bring Google products to feature phones more easily."
"Google products" is not how another knowledgeable HN commenter recently put it in another thread.
He said Google created Android to make Google the default search engine on phones.
A commenter on the tbray.com page says the same thing.
Given Google's line of business, online ad services, the cumulaitive search traffic sent to google.tld as a result of being the default search engine easily outweighs whatever value could be generated from other "products". The OS might be loaded with interesting things for users and industry commentators to "review", however nothing could be more important to the company's bottom line than search traffic to google.com. If that traffic were to die down, the company would be in crisis mode.
An entire OS created just to be the default search engine. Was this the first time this was ever done.
"Google products" is not how another knowledgeable HN commenter recently put it in another thread.
He said Google created Android to make Google the default search engine on phones.
A commenter on the tbray.com page says the same thing.
Given Google's line of business, online ad services, the cumulaitive search traffic sent to google.tld as a result of being the default search engine easily outweighs whatever value could be generated from other "products". The OS might be loaded with interesting things for users and industry commentators to "review", however nothing could be more important to the company's bottom line than search traffic to google.com. If that traffic were to die down, the company would be in crisis mode.
An entire OS created just to be the default search engine. Was this the first time this was ever done.