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AI start-up Perplexity makes surprise bid for Google Chrome (www.bbc.com)
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[–] 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

If Google is forced to sell Chrome, is anything stopping them from simply developing another Chromium based browser and immediately beginning to siphon customers from what is now the competition?

Because that seems to be something that would seriously limit the value of the browser.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The sale often includes a period during which the one selling can't create a similar product again to compete with what they sold

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    That typically happens when the seller actually wants to sell though.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I have some personal experience with this! In the Before Times, an anti-trust action like this would also involve a many-year agreement by Google to an oversight committee composed of some engineers and business/economics people. Google would be forced to listen to the panel and enable any follow-ups. The “or else” was typically so astronomical it would be business-ending.

    But that was back when we had the rule of law.

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