Ben Gilbert: observation

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…Yep. Which let’s make this relevant to today and stop dancing. If the DOJ’s ruling is that Google has to divest Chrome. There is one way that Chrome is a business and that is getting paid by Google to drive traffic to Google as a search engine. It’s the only way to operate a business of a browser. Maybe in the AI era, it’s the AI company having it drive traffic. But it’s the same exact thing. One of two things has to be true, Google owns Chrome or someone else owns Chrome and then Google pays them. Definitely can’t make illegal or I don’t really understand what the goal is, if you make it illegal is if you say they both can’t own Chrome and they can’t pay web browsers to drive traffic, Chrome has no potential of being a business if that’s the case. Yep. Chrome, huge win. In fact, it’s so much of a win that after a couple of years Google starts thinking, well gosh, maybe we should build Chrome into an operating system in and of itself, let’s go attack Windows. Let’s take it to Microsoft where it really hurts Chrome OS, you know? But it became successful in schools in education.…

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