The Break-Up of Google Could Create Another Monopoly, Plus The Onion’s Purchase of Infowars Is In Jeopardy – Pajiba Entertainment News
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There’s an interesting development brewing with Google. In its antitrust lawsuit against the world’s most powerful search engine, the Department of Justice—among other things—is asking that Google be required to sell off the Chrome browser, the world’s most popular browser (with a 61% market share). Google essentially uses the browser—offered for free—to collect data it leverages to sell ads, maintaining its dominance as the most powerful internet ad sales force in the world.
For anyone opposed to monopolies—of which Google clearly is one—this may sound reasonable. However, as Casey Newton over on Platformer astutely observes, the real question is what would happen next. The Chrome browser is worth $20 billion, and the only companies that could afford and benefit from spending that amount—OpenAI, Microsoft, perhaps Apple—might end up creating new monopolies. For instance, OpenAI bundling its products with Chrome could significantly disrupt Google…
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