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I think there is an interesting aspect to this. By being the default search engine, Google also becomes the "universal" gateway to the web for every human with

by isodev 3y ago

I think there is an interesting aspect to this. By being the default search engine, Google also becomes the "universal" gateway to the web for every human with a connected device. Thanks to Chrome's market share, Google also has influence over web standards AND is able to essentially push whatever they want in their browser because they can. In other words, the World Wide Web is a Google Wide Web and $26.3B seems like a faire price.

tantalor 3y ago
To be fair... that is essentially the company's mission statement: > Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. https://about.google/ https://about.google/
- isodev 3y ago
  Indeed. I always assumed it’s intended in a “let’s have nice things and improve life for humans” way. I would never have guessed it really means “every human eyeball will be assimilated and adapted to fuel our ad empire”
  - kevindamm 3y ago
    I think it's possible that it means both.
bsimpson 3y ago
That was Facebook's strategy with Internet.org or whatever their free service for India/SE Asia was called - make "the Internet" mean "Facebook" for people who didn't have the internet yet. Kinda like what AOL was before ISPs were popular.