There’s a lot of reasons to own it, one potential profit source being selling what the default search engine is. Just because Google doesn’t own it doesn’t mean they won’t pay to be the default search. They pay a lot for this on Firefox. (Yes, this is being looked into to and may stop, but they can still sell being an option for the default search engine, or other things.)
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underisk@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
why would anyone buy it when it’s primary profit-generating activity is driving traffic to google
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
underisk@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Sure but does that outweigh the costs that google was eating while using the browser as a loss leader for search and ads? I doubt they’re going to keep hosting and distributing updates from their CDN for free.
itsnotits@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hupf@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Your right.
And009@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Your left, my right?