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wheel - 2:00 am on Feb 26, 2009 (gmt 0)
This is just an opportunistic gouge at a perceived competitor. They may be right, MS may be wrong, they may be saving the day, but the purpose behind this is none of those. They're seizing the chance to sucker punch MS. Oh yeah, and pot calling the kettle black :).
It's not up to Google to act as protector of the browser world. They have a search engine and what people use to access it has very little to do with their business model.