At an estimated 3.45 billion Chrome users across virtually all platforms, that places the value of a Chrome user at $10. Anyone can fork a browser (and many un

At an estimated 3.45 billion Chrome users across virtually all platforms, that places the value of a Chrome user at $10. Anyone can fork a browser (and many unqualified or underfunded teams do), but acquiring control of the primary surface for Internet access of nearly half the planet? $34.5B seems pretty cheap.