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sabreW4K3 ( sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al )  to TechnologyEnglish · 1 year ago

Perplexity wants to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, twice the company's value

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Perplexity wants to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, twice the company's value

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sabreW4K3 ( sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al )  to TechnologyEnglish · 1 year ago
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Perplexity, an AI startup, is putting together a bid to buy Google Chrome. There are just two potential problems. First,...
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    I don’t. This is fundamentally worse than Google owning Chrome.

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      I think Chrome inevitably losing a lot of market share could be a pretty good result for the web.

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        Will it? Twitter is a Nazi bar, but it still has a large customer base.

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          And nothing of value would be lost when the nazi bar closes down

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            But the Nazi bar still has patrons.

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              And they are nazis and i dont care if they lose their place and i dont care of the owner of a nazi bar profits. Evil does not deserve a seat at the table

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                I’m speaking in context to Sina’s comment. Because a company/service becomes shitty doesn’t mean that the company/service loses a lot of market share.

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      What’s wrong with perplexity owning chrome?

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        The reason to own a browser is to shape the Internet to your company’s favor.

        Internet Explorer was designed to ensure web apps would be hard to build, helping to ensure the Windows monopoly.

        Chrome was designed to open the Internet, but tie it to Google search and keep Internet browsing lucrative for advertising, helping to benefit Ad Sense.

        An AI startup owning Chrome is probably going to be the biggest privacy nightmare since Copilot.

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          Thank you for the insight

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