Alphabet Inc.’s Chrome browser could go for as much as $20 billion if a judge agrees to a Justice Department proposal to sell the business, in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the world’s biggest tech companies.
I actually looked up an archive link. Trump’s first DOJ started this lawsuit, so potentially this could actually happen.
I do think that Google is so uniquely powerful that selling off Chrome to someone else is a net positive. It won’t make Google search lose its status as top search engine for a while.
Stripping Chrome for parts would be better, but this is significant.
Good thing about Trump and his government last time was that he inadvertently went after the right people because he got into a personal spat against “the algorithms” (which they might as well use echo braces on at this point).
It’s the same reason he took the piss out of Elon the first time he was offered his account back on Twitter. But just like that, there’s a chance he turns face the moment he’s scared Google a little bit.
Except Google search is already dead in the water to LLM-powered search, so crippling Google empowers Peter Thiel
I actually looked up an archive link. Trump’s first DOJ started this lawsuit, so potentially this could actually happen.
I do think that Google is so uniquely powerful that selling off Chrome to someone else is a net positive. It won’t make Google search lose its status as top search engine for a while.
Stripping Chrome for parts would be better, but this is significant.
https://archive.is/bBDQt
Good thing about Trump and his government last time was that he inadvertently went after the right people because he got into a personal spat against “the algorithms” (which they might as well use echo braces on at this point).
It’s the same reason he took the piss out of Elon the first time he was offered his account back on Twitter. But just like that, there’s a chance he turns face the moment he’s scared Google a little bit.