Perplexity makes bold $34.5B bid for Google's Chrome browser

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Post by voxadam » Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 4:28 PM UTC

Re: Perplexity makes bold $34.5B bid for Google's Chrome browser

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Post by voxadam » Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 4:28 PM UTC

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Post by rvnx » Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 4:30 PM UTC

Then Google Ads will appear in some way in Perplexity (https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/why-we-re-experimenting-w...) and Perplexity will use Google Search, and everybody is happy, except the regulators.

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Post by gnabgib » Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 5:31 PM UTC

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Post by dcreater » Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 6:12 PM UTC

I'm not sure what would be worse

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Post by AlienRobot » Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 6:30 PM UTC

Who is ready to have their browsing patterns mined by a different company?

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Post by moojacob » Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 7:40 PM UTC

I think it's fun that they always get in the media like this. They know how to play the game.

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Post by nly » Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 7:43 PM UTC

So $34.5B for a logo and a Chromium build/CI pipeline?

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Post by wmichelin » Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 7:59 PM UTC

AlienRobot wrote: post #6

Who is ready to have their browsing patterns mined by a different company?

I already daily drive Safari instead

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 8:33 PM UTC