Perplexity wants to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, twice the company's value

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• altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I want to buy chrome for $5.50!

  How about you stranger?

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  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oof that’s more than twice my value.

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  • joyjoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ll lower your offer to $1.00

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    • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I see your one dollar and I lower it by a cookie and two chicklets!

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  • its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tree fiddy is the only price I’m willing to pay.

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• Hirom@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have mixed feeling about this.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t. This is fundamentally worse than Google owning Chrome.

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    • Sina@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think Chrome inevitably losing a lot of market share could be a pretty good result for the web.

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    • Aquaphobi@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What’s wrong with perplexity owning chrome?

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  • Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same

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  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Please share

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    • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Turning the most popular browser further into an AI hellscape.

      Influencing how every other browser (minus Firefox’s minuscule marketshare) functions via the engine.

      On the other hand, no longer under googles control.

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    • SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In order to better understand the user, their prompts, etc and to be able to fully modify websites, these AIs need access to the DOM.

      This is made much more easier if you integrate your AI to a browser.

      So, in theory, the AI could understand what your are currently researching, profile your interest, and provide you answers before you even made a prompt.

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• decayedproton@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wonder how large of a bid I should send to Microsoft to buy Windows.

  But seriously, if they aren’t creating their own, better browser to compete and win over users then there is a problem with the market.

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• npdean@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If they have 34.5 billion lying around, why don’t they make a new browser themselves?

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  • craftrabbit@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Making a new browser is easy. They want to buy a near monopoly over the browser market, not a browser.

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    • npdean@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Making a new browser is easy.

      Then why doesn’t anyone else do it? We have only 3 real browsers.

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