Is Google Chrome sold? Yahoo, Duckduckgo interested
Openaai is not the only company that would strike with pleasure if Google should really be forced to sell its web browser Chrome as a result of the US government’s monopoly proceedings. Even Yahoo would like to buy Chrome.
In rows of takeover pricing
It is far from clear that Google Chrome could be sold. In the competition process against Google, the negotiations on possible countermeasures that the internet giant, the part of the parent company Alphabet are currently ongoing, could meet the claims of the US government to fulfill the requirements for its violations, but nothing has long been decided.
Nevertheless, the number of companies is growing that expresses interest in taking over the browser Chrome from Google. Most recently, the startup company Openaai, co-financed by Microsoft, had announced that one was open to acquire Chrome. In the meantime, the company has also thrown its hat into the ring behind the alternative Duckduckgo. If the price does not matter, you would of course be willing to purchase Chrome, it said.
According to the US economic service Bloomberg is also interested in the portal operator and publisher Yahoo in the purchase of Chrome. Chrome, according to the boss of Duckduckgo and the Yahoo manager responsible for business with the internet search, would be worth around $ 50 billion, but the browser is probably also the “strategically important player on the web,” it said. With the purchase of Chrome, Yahoo could probably increase its market share of the web search from currently three percent to a double -digit value, after all, around 60 percent of all search queries on the web currently assume from users of the browser.
In most cases, the search or address bar of the browser is the origin of search engine access. What the financing of a takeover of a chrome could ultimately look like is completely unclear. With all the rumors or public interests around a possible sale of Chrome, it should be borne in mind that this deals with the “commercial” version of the browser, which Google markets.
If a split is actually forced, Google would also have to say goodbye to the Chromium platform, whose open source base also forms the basis for various other browsers such as Opera, Firefox and Edge. If it is based on the US Justice Ministry, the sale of Chrome would be an important step to overcome Google’s monopoly position. Of course, a separation from a browser is out of the question for internet giants, as the software has an enormous part in the fact that Google is now in such a dominant position in marketing advertising on the Internet and the leading search engine operator.
