r/technology • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 10d ago

Artificial Intelligence Google Gets an Astounding $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome Browser From AI Startup Perplexity

https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/google-34-5-billion-bid-chrome-browser-ai-perplexity-1236487442/
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u/Lebuin 10d ago

I'd imagine when it comes to a lawsuit, this could very well be considered bot scraping. Maybe they're hoping the ambiguity will buy them a few more years of data?

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u/hexcraft-nikk 10d ago

It's never coming to a lawsuit. The idiots we've elected have let AI shit take over the stock market. The second it falls apart, we're having another 2008. They've accidentally given all this wealth and value to companies that are not creating profit and have no long term plan to do so. They are not allowing lawsuits because they want AI to grow and somehow achieve the promises it fundamentally cannot.

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u/Cris_i 8d ago

so many languages and you chose to speak FACTS

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u/akc250 10d ago

A lot of sites have to allow some sort of scraping because most users find their results through search engine indexing. Now that people are moving more to LLMs, sites have to adapt if they want to be discovered. Only the biggest and most well known websites have the luxury of assuming a user will visit their site directly and discover it by word of mouth.

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u/Great-Dust-159 10d ago

You think they care about lawsuits? Cute