Google Believes Chrome Will Be Damaged If Purchased By Other Companies, Here's Why

Google wants to keep Chrome (photo: dock. Google)

JAKARTA The antitrust case that Google is currently facing poses a very serious threat. The company will be forced to separate from Chrome by selling its browser to other companies.

Of course Google is trying to keep Chrome because this browser is one of their success factors. What's more, Chrome is a browser with the most users today, beating other browsers like Safari and Firefox.

To keep Chrome, Google says that the browser could be 'rustrated' without it. The company also said that Chrome splitting is impossible because only those can run Chrome effectively.

Google Chrome General Manager, Parisa Tabriz, quoted from the Android Police report, saying that companies buying Chrome will not get the entire service. The reason is, various Chrome services depend on other Google servers.

Therefore, the separation of Chrome from Google can be catastrophic. As an illustration, Tabriz explains that the Safe Exploration mode in Chrome and the ability to identify Password Violations depend on the same Google infrastructure.

If other companies buy it, they don't have the infrastructure Google is developing. Therefore, Tabriz doubts that other parties can recreate its features as they previously developed.

Chrome Divestment Due To Antitrust Action

This reason makes sense, but it doesn't seem like it's strong enough to convince the judge. Google has been caught up in antitrust allegations for a long time as the company has been proven to have anti-competitive practices to dominate the online search market.

Google is known to pay big phone manufacturers, such as Apple and Samsung, to make its search engine a built-in phone. With this action done, the judge called Google a 'poly company and has acted to defend its monopoly'.

The best punishment offered by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) is Chrome divestment. This punishment is lucrative for OpenAI, Perplexity, and Yahoo because they are interested in buying Chrome.

However, for the reasons Google provides, it is quite reasonable that the three companies will find it difficult to develop Chrome if they manage to buy it. For now, Google is still trying to maintain the browser.