Anand Rajaraman: Google's Chrome, and the "cornerstone of privacy on the Web"

Anand Rajaraman's Google Chrome: A Masterstroke or a Blunder? has some interesting insights. Excerpt:

"The cornerstone of privacy on the web today is that we can use products from different companies to create isolation: desktop from Microsoft, browser from Mozilla, search from Google. These companies have no incentive to share information. This is one instance where information silos serve us well as consumers. Any kind of vertical integration has the potential to erode privacy."