The Ministry of Justice always wants Google to be forced to sell Chrome and Android. The judge who presides over the last Antitrust case did not say much anyway, but some politicians seem to think that it is the right way to punish Google for the financial indiscretions that he committed. (Publisher’s note: Are they considered to be crimes? Let me know what you think in the comments).
I don’t think it will happen and my father always told me that it’s good to want things. Part of me wants to see Google struck hard, so it stops doing shaded stuff, but the smarter part of me knows that there are not really companies that could maintain projects like Android or Chrome without being also, or even more, shaded. This is a good thing that I am not in charge of anything.
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To make this thing even more a show, Yahoo! (Never forget it!) threw her hat into the ring And said he would also like to “buy” Chrome if Google was forced to sell. I will give you a moment to remember who is Yahoo and stop laughing.
Yahoo has become the history of the failure of technology par excellence. Believe it or not, at some point, Yahoo had power on the web that Google currently has; A huge market share, investors and potential partners climbing each other to take a bite and an apparently endless potential. We saw how it turned out.
Today, Yahoo is a shell of his old self and even the business leaders are aware of it. One of the major reasons, in her own estimate, is that she has no kind of first party web browser. Well, ok, a real web browser: the real owner of Yahoo, Apollo World Managementis also in Netscape. You may have heard of it.
I receive his reasoning, 100%. You could also, even if you don’t know you get it. This has to do with the way web research is done.
You can open a web browser, go to Google.comAnd type a search in the box in the center of the screen. Millions of people do this exactly every hour.
You can also open a web browser (most of them, anyway) and simply enter your search.
The two obtain the same results of the same place, a way that has just saved you from the shot and loading of pages. Yahoo knows how important this is and would actively be developed its own browser anyway. I would bet money that it will also be a browser based on chrome like most others. At least, I hope Yahoo does not think it can reinvent the wheel.
Is it good or bad? I will answer with another question: can it be both?
Apollo Media Group has a bunch of things to Norwegian cruise lines to the web / cloud security supplier and the accommodation company Rack space. He has the money that would be necessary to maintain the Chrome project.
He would most likely shape the future of Chrome to his own advantage. At least, I would expect it to happen if Chrome falls under his umbrella.
This highlights the real problem companies that should probably not have as much control on the web, such as Amazon, Microsoft, Apple or Google, are those that have the financial means to lose money year after year to build Chrome and its software ecosystem.
Companies that should be in charge, such as Mozilla or Duck Duck Go, cannot afford it. Do not embark on companies like Perplexity or Openai having a control over something more important than a television remote control. It’s quite serious to see Google hold it.
Yahoo needs Chrome, but he certainly doesn’t have to be affiliated with Google. Google needs chrome because it likes money, and some people say that it uses Chrome to extort even further from the competition. We need Chrome, but we don’t need it to be affiliated any Web search platform.
I have no idea what will happen and as I said, I do not think that an American judge would never force an American company to sell an American asset, especially in the current political and financial climate. And yes, I know that America is more than the United States and You know what I mean.
I just thought that seeing Yahoo jump in the mixture was worth thinking and speaking for at least a few minutes.
