“I believe it is upwards of $50 billion (roughly Rs. 4,26,756 crore), if it went in the marketplace, and that is out of DuckDuckGo’s value vary,” stated Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo, which operates a privacy-focused search engine and browser.
Weinberg, who stated the estimate was “back-of-the-envelope” math primarily based on Chrome’s consumer base, testified as a part of a three-week listening to within the DOJ’s case towards Alphabet’s Google to find out learn how to treatment the corporate’s monopoly in web search. Judge Amit Mehta dominated Google illegally monopolised the market final yr and is considering a package deal of modifications proposed by antitrust enforcers. The DOJ and a gaggle of US states have argued that Google must be pressured to dump its in style Chrome internet browser.
The $50 billion (roughly Rs. 4,26,756 crore) determine given by Weinberg is larger than the roughly $20 billion (roughly Rs. 1,70,743 crore) worth estimated by Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mandeep Singh in November. Such a lofty price ticket would possibly dissuade potential consumers from making presents if Google had been ordered to spin off Chrome.
Executives from synthetic intelligence corporations OpenAI and Perplexity testified earlier within the trial that their corporations can be focused on shopping for Chrome if the court docket mandates a divestment.
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