Following it's agreement with the Russians Federal Anti-Monopoly Service, Chrome will now bring up a prompt for it's Russian users to choose between Yandex, Google, and **************.
Sounds like a good thing to me, monopolies can be quite dangerous. Although I don't feel like this is a monopolistic thing, you could always change your default search in Chrome, it just didn't prompt you on first run to do so. Google did try unsuccessfully to contest the ruling in Late 2015.
In line with the agreement with Yandex and the settlement with FAS, we have instituted a new opportunity for search providers to promote their search services within the Chrome app on Android devices.
Sounds like a good thing to me, monopolies can be quite dangerous. Although I don't feel like this is a monopolistic thing, you could always change your default search in Chrome, it just didn't prompt you on first run to do so. Google did try unsuccessfully to contest the ruling in Late 2015.
In line with the agreement with Yandex and the settlement with FAS, we have instituted a new opportunity for search providers to promote their search services within the Chrome app on Android devices.