points by dictum 8 years ago

This has been pointed out here before, but that's not entirely inaccurate for a significant number of users, whose stack is:

- Entering a query that is sent to Google by one of many channels (google.com, browser omnibox, Android omnibox)

- Choosing a result from a Google search

- Pages following guidelines defined by Google

- With ads displayed, published and managed through Google-owned platforms

- Atop standards initially implemented in Google Chrome, with design influenced by them

- Displayed on a browser made by Google

- Retrieved through protocols often designed with influence from Google

- From an IP resolved by Google Public DNS

- The client device is running on an operating system made by Google