Google could force you to sell your Chrome browser. The antitrust trial that is being held in the US now goes through its critical stage. The judges already declared that “Google is a monopoly” in the terrre of searches and advertising, and now it remains to know what the consequences will be for this technological giant. The demand for selling Chrome has already generated the interest of a company to which this browser would come as a ring to the finger.
Openai would be interested. Nick Turley, product manager at Openai, declared in this judicial process. When asked if in Openai they would be interested in something like that, he replied that “yes, we would be, as would be other companies.”
OpenAI wants to be the new Google with its search engine. Sam Altman’s company launched in summer of 2024 Searchgpt, converted something later into Chatgpt Search. The OpenAi AI search engine is, as perplexity, an increasingly striking alternative to Google’s traditional search engine, and it was clear that the searches land is one that Openai seeks to dominate.
And now also with a chatgpt browser. But it is that in Openai they not only want to have their own search engine, but also their own browser. In November 2024 we learned that the company is working in its own browser that would have integrated chatgpt natively. Developing a browser is a complex task, so if Chrome finally puts on sale, acquiring it and modifying it would be an interesting solution for Openai.
We have already seen how Openai Chrome could be. When the company launched its search engine, it did it both with an integrated option at chatgpt.com, and through an extension for the Chrome browser. In Xataka we tried it at that time – I use it since then – and it is clear that this combination of Chrome+Chatgpt is really striking.
Two out of three users use Chrome worldwide. Source: Statcounter Globalstats.“An incredible experience”. Turley highlighted in his statement that having Chrome more integrated in Openai would allow a much better product. “We could offer a really incredible experience” if Chatgpt was integrated into Chrome, he said. “We would have the ability to teach users what they could expect from an AI experience as the protagonist”
Chrome is too dominant (and that is great for Openai). The Chrome browser market share is currently 66.17% according to Statcounter GlobalStats figures. Two out of three users worldwide use it, and only safari (thanks to their integration in iPhone, iPad and Mac) manages to do some shade with 17% quota. Chrome’s imperial domain would solve a fundamental problem for Openai: the distribution and dissemination of Chatgpt to reach more users.
Chatgpt would reach everywhere. It is true that Chatgpt’s popularity is remarkable, but Turley himself claimed that there is a big problem with distribution. Although they have an agreement with Apple on the iPhone, they have failed to reach large agreements with Android device manufacturers. Being able to integrate chatgpt in Chrome would solve the problem with a blow and porrazo and allow its chatbot to be “pre -installed” in hundreds of millions of devices.
OpenAi asks for free competition …. OpenAi’s manager also talked about how some of his competitors
“They control access points to how people discover products, including ours. People discover them through a browser or an application store. Having real choice capacity drives competitiveness. Users should have the ability to choose.”
… for now. It is, of course, an expected speech of someone who at the moment does not have a monopoly and who wants to try to compete with those who do. It is evident that Turley referred to Apple and Google, the two companies that dominate the market and the distribution of products. Before Microsoft did it and took advantage of for example to convert its Internet Explorer browser into the absolute dominator of the market. He did it until the EU forced him to offer other options and until Firefox and finally Chrome won that game.
A decisive judgment. After the legal process that declared that Google is a monopoly in the field of searches and that ended a few months ago, now the phase that in the US calls “remedies” is being held, and that focuses on the measures that the Judicial Court must take to solve the problem. This part of the process will last about three weeks, and Google’s future can be huge impacted depending on the decisions taken.
A remote possibility. Be that as it may, nothing is much less determined, and an important carambola would have to be produced for OpenAi to end up getting Chrome. To begin with, American justice would have to force Google to definitely sell Chrome. Google would probably appeal, which would lengthen the sentence became effective. And by then Openai may have launched his own browser, but what is certain is that Chrome would also be interested in many other companies, and there would be a struggle and a spectacular bid to get this development.
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