Could a Forced Chrome Sale Fix Google’s Antitrust Issues? Chrome Boss Argues It Would Break the Browser
The US procedure against Google is about to what extent a sale of the Chrome browser could satisfy the demands of the competitive keepers. Chrome boss Parisa Tabriz assured that only Google Chrome made what the browser is today.
Chrome boss: Features depend on Google
According to Google’s General Manager of Chrome, Paria Tabriz, only the Internet company itself can ensure that Chrome can exist in its form existing today. The reason for this are the many connections that the Chrome browser has to other Google’s ecosystem.
Without these connections, it is not possible to offer the “level of features and functionality that the popular Chrome browser has today,” said Tabriz loudly Bloomberg. Google is simply the only company that is able to offer such a package. Chrome today represents the result of 17 years of cooperation between the developers. There has never been an example in which attempts have been made to improve such a tightly interwoven network, says Tabriz tenor.
Basic chrome features such as the Safe Browsing or the warning function for stolen passwords are also dependent on the joint Google infrastructure of Chrome and other services and could therefore not be realized by other operators, the manager continued on last Friday.
90% of the Chromium Code has come from Google since 2015
Chrome is based on the source-open chromium project, according to Tabriz, but Google contributed more than 90 percent of the chromium codes that had been incorporated since 2015 and put hundreds of millions of dollars into the open source project. Chrome has currently left a market share of over 66 percent worldwide and thus all other browser providers far behind.
With her argument, the Google manager tries to prevent the US authorities from forceing the company to sell Chrome to third parties. So far, among other things, the AI companies Openai and Perplexity as well as the search engine providers and portal operators Duckduckgo and Yahoo have expressed interest in taking over Chrome. With a possible sales price of around $ 50 billion, a sale of Chrome should be difficult for most interested parties. The background is the procedure of the US authorities due to the abuse of Chrome’s market power by Google.
