Yahoo Interested In Buying Chrome, Already Prepared Tens Of Billions Of Funds

Yahoo wants to buy Chrome (photo: dock. Yahoo)

JAKARTA After OpenAI and Perplexity, Yahoo has now expressed interest in Chrome. If in the end Google had to sell the search engine, Yahoo said it wanted to buy it.

This statement was made during the fourth day of the antitrust trial, still with efforts to solve Google with Chrome. Yahoo is interested in buying Chrome because they believe that web browsers are a very important tool.

Yahoo Search General Manager Brian Provost, quoted from The Verge report, discusses the importance of browsers when making testimony. Provost explained that 60 percent of search requests were made through a browser, directly from the address bar.

Therefore, Yahoo has developed an internal browser prototype since last summer. This is done to find out what is needed in marketing browsers. Unfortunately, the construction of the prototype takes a long time.

Provost said that making a browser prototype could take six to nine months. Therefore, Yahoo has discussed with several companies to buy browsers. It is not explained what companies have discussed with Yahoo.

Now, Chrome is the next target. Acquiring Chrome is considered the fastest way to achieve what Yahoo needs. What's more, Chrome is the 'most important strategic player on the web'.

If Yahoo manages to acquire Chrome, Yahoo's search market is believed to have increased from three percent to double digits. Yahoo has predicted that the deal will cost tens of billions of dollars. Therefore, they have secured funding with Apollo Global Management support.

If the judge decides that Google should sell Chrome, Yahoo will have to deal with other big companies, namely Perplexity and OpenAI. Although DuckDuckGo expressed interest in Chrome, the company's CEO admitted that he could not afford it.