Indian-origin man offers over ₹3302152 crore to Google just to buy…

The world’s most popular web browser, Google Chrome, might soon have a new owner. Perplexity, an AI-based search company, has made a surprise offer of USD 34.5 billion (around Rs. 2.88 lakh crore) to buy Chrome. The offer was sent directly to Alphabet, Google’s parent company, without any prior talks.

According to reports from The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, Perplexity made this move at a time when Google is under pressure in the US to break its monopoly. Last year, a federal judge ruled that Google holds an illegal monopoly in internet search. The US government is now considering forcing Google to sell the Chrome browser and license its search data to competitors.

Judge Amit Mehta is expected to announce a final decision on these measures soon.

Perplexity, valued at USD 18 billion, says it has secured full financial backing from several major investment funds for this deal. The company’s Chief Business Officer, Dmitry Shevelenko, confirmed that multiple large funds have agreed to finance the entire transaction. This isn’t Perplexity’s first bold mov, earlier, it had even proposed merging TikTok’s US operations with its own.