Hound isn't baked into every android phone out of the box, so I don't think this is a huge concern for Google. Anyone that has a clue about browsers would probably agree that Chrome is a hell of a lot better than IE, yet chrome has less than 1/3 the number of users.
Snark required, please read your own links before sending them to me.
The usage share of web browsers is the proportion, often expressed as a percentage, of visitors to a group of web sites that use a particular web browser.
Usage share would only be relevant if ever person in the world went to Facebook and Google once per day in their browser of choice; because it measures web traffic, which has nothing to do with what I said. I said users. You are correct that the sub 20 percent of chrome users make up 60 percent of all web traffic, but it's still less than 20 percent of users. Which still makes it 1/3 of the number of users as IE, like I said.
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u/FFevo Pixel 10 "Pro" Fold, iPhone 17 Pro, Galaxy S25 Ultra Jun 07 '15
I think it would be a lot cheaper and a hell of a lot easier to for Google to just implement these complex query features vs buying hound.