What do you think this will mean for OpenAI, Anthropic and their current valuations?

I bet the judge already realizes how mistaken he was to let them off. Now they'll use their monopoly product to ensure monopoly control in the new market he was so sure would rein them in.

The thing about chrome is that people use it because they like it. It's not forced or bundled with windows or iOS.

A monopoly is when you do anti-competitive things, not when your product is far and away the most popular.

If anything blame Firefox for dropping the ball so damn hard

This is... a woefully uninformed statement. You realize they just lost several monopoly cases, including around Chrome? They just got off on the meaningful penalty.

Google is an anticompetitive monopoly, and Chrome is an anticompetitive monopoly. This has been established by multiple courts of law. Your armchair claims to the contrary hold no water.

My friend, I suggest reading the actual lawsuit and rulings before commenting.

The case ruled that google search was a monopoly for using anti-competitive practices (paying apple to make google the default search) and one of the recommended remedies was selling off chrome. The judge didn't go through with this, likely because in the case they note that people voluntarily really like using chrome, because "edge is the default windows browser that people seem to use only to download chrome".

Check the chair you are in before speaking.

The differences between Chrome and Firefox are too minimal to chalk up Chrome's market share to preference. From 2008-2010 maybe, but Chrome established such a lead in that time that its inertia (and Chromebooks) did the rest.

What does this mean for publishers and SEO, if AI starts answering questions directly in Chrome instead of sending traffic?