Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates

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• lightnegative@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I can make up numbers too!

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ah yes, the most original article headline:

  <thing stated as a fact> <oh NVM its just something someone said>

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All business and product valuations are basically guesstimates

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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not all of them, some are averages of many people’s guesstimates.

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Chrome shouldn’t be worth more than an IMAP client. If it is, then the web should be torn down and built anew.

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  • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    IMAP

    Speaking of something that needs tearing down and building anew, email is a good candidate for that.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s how you get monetized spying enshittified email. Do you want monetized spying enshittified email?

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• Olap@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Given the core of the product is open source (see chromium) I find it really hard to believe that the brand is worth that. Google could sell it for an amount and release Android Internet and it will do almost exactly the same thing. And users I suspect won’t care. Google needs broken up for sure, but the browser brand makes little sense to me being separate

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  • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s not only about the brand, it’s about the installed base. You have hundreds of millions (billion plus?) of users who use your application every day for a wide variety of tasks.

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    • Olap@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And if you start fucking with them then they will all go to Google’s new browser. Just like the old one. Not all, but you get the picture. Chrome isn’t worth $50bn to anyone but Google

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  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I am opposite to this.

    Present day Google IS chrome and as much as i am disgusted by them and want them broken up forcing a sale of chrome does not make sense and could actually spiral into the collapse of the company. (Don’t threaten me with a good time)

    All internet platforms want a… well platform to have users on. An interface/environment that in its most profitable form can be plastered with ads.

    For the google of old this used to be its search engine website.

    But it sucks now, the web has kept growing and most people only need a different tiny fraction of it.

    Yes its dominant, but its getting increasingly bad and will get increasingly useless as we start using smarter ai to filter (not re-generate) the web to our needs.

    This is why openai wants to buy chrome, they want to replace all that google was with themselves.

    Google also have their workspace platforms but there are no standalone apps. They are inherently designed for in browser use.

    All of this means it makes a lot of sense they have a clear incentive to want to control the browser. Because its the frame that contains almost everything they do.

    Compare that with microsoft, who owns the majority of operating systems, the entire office platform, and is also still competing with a search engine. And they still get keep bing?

    Burn both these corpos but the logic applied here makes no sense.

    I am purposely ignoring all the other projects, robotics, Because honestly half of them never get to product and they don’t really effect the identity of theirs business as much.

    If anything it would make more to sell these other projects like autonomous cars, you know they are just going to try take over taxi services first and delivery services second if they get to keep that.

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• barnaclebutt@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Chrome is worth 51 Billion, this asshole on the internet guesstimates.

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• frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Only if they monetise the hell out of it and sell people’s data.

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• besselj@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Of the companies that might buy Chrome, I hope DuckDuckGo gets it.

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hope no one gets it. It should be its own separate company.

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    • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      *It’s should be its own separate non-profit.

      FTFY

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  • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Weinberg described his estimate as a “back-of-the-envelope” calculation, based on Chrome’s vast user base and global reach – a figure that far exceeds previous estimates, such as the $20 billion valuation offered by Bloomberg analyst Mandeep Singh last November. Weinberg added that such a price tag would be well beyond DuckDuckGo’s financial capabilities, remarking, “That’s out of DuckDuckGo’s price range.”

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