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Who Will Buy Google Chrome? DOJ Breaking Up Big Tech

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Google Chrome is the leading browser, but it may be the first trophy on the chopping block. Why? The antitrust axe is finally swinging at the shinbones of Big Tech — and the regulators want blood.

Could OpenAI or Perplexity end up owning the browser that tracks the world?

Read about the DOJ's plans to break up Google and Big Tech and about AI Chatbots attacking the search giant.

How about Big Tech CEOs attacking consumer privacy and invading artists' IP?

Are you a clever investor? Do you have a fuck you fund to protect yourself?

What could be the impact of breaking up Big Tech?

Google Chrome & Ad Tech Stack Targeted by U.S. DOJ


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While the U.S. DOJ is officially targeting Google’s Ad Tech Stack — including Ad Manager and AdX — testimony and growing pressure from rivals like OpenAI and Perplexity have put Chrome in the speculative spotlight.

Google Chrome isn’t just a browser. It’s a data-harvesting, search-boosting, privacy-erasing megaphone that gives Google 65%+ browser market share and 90%+ of global search. Regulators aren’t buying the “free browser” fairy tale anymore.

According to PitchBook, if the courts force a divestment, Google Chrome might end up in the hands of OpenAI, Perplexity, or another new-age AI engine ready to own the gateway to the web. Let that sink in.

Selling Chrome would be like Tesla selling its gigafactories. Unthinkable — until antitrust makes it inevitable.

AI Chatbots vs Search: The Piranhas Are Circling the Orca


AI Chatbots vs Search Engines - Igor Beuker - Marketing Keynote Speaker

Let’s be real: Google Search is still the orca of the ocean — powerful, dominant, untouchable at first glance.

But while everyone watches the whale, a school of AI piranhas quietly takes bites.

Google Search pulled in 1.63 trillion visits last year.

Meanwhile, AI chatbots collectively racked up 55.2 billion visits — a staggering +81% YoY growth.


  • ChatGPT: 47.7B visits (the alpha piranha)

  • Claude, Perplexity, Grok, and Meta AI: All surging with triple or quadruple-digit growth

  • Microsoft Copilot: Exploded by 1038% YoY


Despite a current 34x gap, the trendline is clear: Users are shifting from keyword search to conversational AI.

And the browser — Google Chrome — is the front door.

But it's not all doom and gloom for Google.

Google's newest AI video generator, Veo 3, generates clips that most users online can't distinguish from those made by human filmmakers and actors.

Discover what content visionary Hashem Al-Ghaili says about Veo 3 on TikTok

The Long Game: Galloway, Beuker & the Break Up Big Tech Chorus


https://youtu.be/nY8GI4sYF20?si=-H0VuLwQil_CPiFG

Scott Galloway and I have been sounding the alarm for almost a decade: Break up Big Tech.

As Galloway stated boldly in his many TV interviews, and wrote in Esquire:

“The breakup of big tech should and will happen, because we're capitalists. It's time.”

— Scott Galloway, Esquire, March 2018

I have delivered the same message live on stage and in podcasts: The G-MAFIA consists of Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, IBM, and Amazon.

We should have been awake after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. We saw how easily sneaky people could infiltrate and infect the internet's bloodstream via Facebook and Google.

What could possibly go wrong? A bunch of billionaires with a God complex, repeat offenders, propaganda, and censoring machines - based on the blue innocent eyes of Mark Zuckerberg? WTF?

Facebook, Google, YouTube, Snap, TikTok, Instagram? They all pushed Fauci and his dangerous vaccines to billions of screenagers!

Big Tech CEOs are squeezing artists like lemons, with 30-50% cuts. Now, to train their AI? Big tech CEOs even dare to state that artist IP should be free or not exist!!

Are Big Tech's intentions and morals clear now?

I share 80% of my wealth, but as a successful investor? I always keep a serious fuck you fund!

For example, when I had to take repeat offender Mark Zuckerberg to court for defamation, smear, lies, and censorship:

With regulators circling and AI challengers rising, the unthinkable is becoming inevitable.

Finally, did the Big Tech breakup start? It's about time to make Big Tech humble.

Can you imagine? Starmer, Macron, Trudeau, and more WEF Young Global Leaders? Locking people up for Facebook posts?

The Deep State, notorious for social engineering and predictive programming since the printing press. With MSM and Big Tech as their partners in crime.

We need to wake up, speak up, and stand up.

Closing Thoughts


Google losing Chrome could open the floodgates.
Not just to AI browsers but also to AI-native search itself.

If AI chatbots are the future of browsing...
Chrome’s new owner won’t just manage bookmarks.
They'll control the interface between humans and the entire web.

Now ask yourself: Who should own that front door?

Additional Sources


Free complete access sources:

DOJ Pushes Google to Divest Chrome in Landmark Antitrust Remedies Trial. Legal.io

OpenAI would buy Google Chrome and Exec Testifies at Trial. Reuters

Perplexity Wants to Buy Chrome if Google Has to Sell It. The Verge

The US DoJ wants Google to sell two of its ad products. TechCrunch

Paid subscription sources:

Google's Future is at Stake as the Next Phase of the Landmark Antitrust Case Kicks Off. Business Insider

Justice Department Urges Tough Action to Break Google's Search Dominance. The Wall Street Journal

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We all know that the MSM is full of propaganda and bribed journalism. Big Tech makes it even worse with its content censoring, fake fact-checkers, and fading social channels to black.

Should I add how toxic social media platforms push fans on lease, walled gardens, and squeeze artists like lemons?

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About the Author

In the spotlights, Igor Beuker is a top marketing innovation keynote speaker and futurist known for his foresight on trends and technologies that impact business, economy, and society. Behind the scenes, a serial entrepreneur with 5 exits and an angel investor in 24 social startups. Board member at next-level media firms, changemaker at Rolling Stone Culture Council, Hollywood sci-fi think tank pioneer, award-winning marketing strategist for Amazon, L’Oréal, Nike, and a seer for Fortune 500s, cities, and countries.
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