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Ugh, Google just gets worse and worse...
Actually, this isn't the first time they did it. There was a thread by a mozilla ex-employee that described how Google destroyed Firefox's market share using the same dirty trick.
Thread can be read on this article.
— Chris Peterson (@cpeterso) July 24, 2018
According to that article,
while Firefox was still a Google search partner.
EDIT: Did not realize how long ago this post was made, whoops.