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Re:Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5B Offer for Chrome by spandrew on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @11:54AM (#44878024)
A social media ad company would be the least favourable. At least Google's central ad business is based off of search queries the user gives to them willingly for value.
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Re:Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5B Offer for Chrome by athenot on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @12:13PM (#44878302)
I think google amasses far more information via website analytics, Gmail and SSO (Log in with Google) than "willingly"-input search queries.
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Re:Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5B Offer for Chrome by marcosdumay on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @12:36PM (#44878687)
They have no lack of attempts to change their central business into a social media ad company, tough. They just failed.
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Re:Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5B Offer for Chrome by rpgbr on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @01:54PM (#44879694)
This was the case, like, 20 years ago. Google is effectively an ad company that makes tech — including a browser — to gather more data from users and sell ads.
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