a few months ago Google was forced to register on the Monopoly offenders list and go door too in Mountain View to tell all the Neighbors after a judge ruled they violated the US Sherman Act of 1890 Google was cutting unfair deals for its search engine to crush competition across the entire technology spectrum they were paying 36% of AD revenue or $20 billion per year to dominate Apple devices Mozilla Firefox was raking in cash to make Google the default and a bunch of other companies financial statements were being nourished by the teets of this illegal Cash
Cow being added to the Monopoly Wall of Shame was a huge embarrassment for a company that once said don't be evil but like Microsoft Walter White mcbath and golum their Greed for power eventually backfired but it appears unlike Microsoft that Google won't just get a slap on the wrist and possibly lose their most important piece of software the Chrome web browser it is November 20th 2024 and you're watching the code report it's a bit ironic that the Chrome web browser currently controls 66.6% of the browser market share and Google search even dominates on browsers that
aren't Chrome like Safari and Firefox thanks to those illegal deals I mentioned earlier but to Google's credit they've invested Millions upon millions of dollars into making web browsers awesome for end users their open source chromium project is used by Microsoft's edge browser as well as alternative hipster browsers like Brave and Arc and all this browser technology is offered for free out of the goodness of Google's heart well as the old saying goes when software is free it means that you are the product Chrome tracks your search queries your browsing history and online Behavior and all
this data feeds back into its advertising business where it can figure out exactly what type of consumer garbage to sell you and when not only does Google's ad Revenue dwarf the competition but alphabet operates at a gross profit margin north of 50% and they make an absolute killing selling their ads to the highest bidder but the Chrome browser is critical to its success because it's the front door to everything Google offers but apparently Department of Justice lawyers are pushing to have Chrome split off or sold to a different company with an estimated price tag of
at least 20 billion the only potential buyers would be companies like meta apple and Amazon all of which are accused of running their own monopolies if browsers start presenting new search engines as Alternatives like open ai's new search engine or duck ducko Google's 90% dominance of the search engine Market will very likely start to deteriorate but they're not going down without a fight and their Regulatory Affairs BP said the doj continues to push a radical agenda that goes far beyond the legal issues of the case things already look bad but to make matters even worse
the leadership at the doj is about to change and whoever takes over there is likely not going to be a big fan of Google Now Microsoft also became a certified Monopoly 25 years ago when they bundled Internet Explorer with Microsoft Windows and suppressed other browsers like Netscape instead of breaking up the company though they just had to open up their apis to thirdparty developers and stop entering exclusivity deals that were unfair to other browsers they didn't even face a direct Financial penalty Microsoft is doing just fine today as A3 trillion company but if Google loses
Chrome I'm not so sure they have a mo to handle a hit like that the good news is that it looks like they'll let Google keep Android and we still don't know how their AI Tech is going to play out long term their Gemini AI has become quite impressive and is become so confident that it's now telling humans to die but like I said Chrome is also the front door to get people using Gemini and when you close that front door it could also hurt consumers because Google will no longer have the motivation to invest
in browser technology like just imagine the horrors if Chrome was handed off to a nonprofit like Apache or the Linux Foundation it might evolve into a diverse ecosystem of hypers special ized browser dros and who knows they might even kill off manifest version 3 which would allow ad blockers to keep working and that means I couldn't use this opportunity right now to promote my new Linux and Dino courses on fireship iO which you can get access to as a pro member using this Black Friday discount for 40% off personally though I think Google will fight
this to the death and I highly doubt Google will ever be forced to sell Chrome the betting odds are currently at 13% because there's no way that Google gives up it's precious one browser to rule them all one browser to find them one browser to bring them all and in the darkness bind them this has been the code report thanks for watching and I will see you in the next one
