Google's been under the antitrust microscope for a while now, especially after last year's court ruling finding it holds a monopoly in online search. While the final outcome is far from certain, the Justice Department threw a major curveball last month by suggesting Google might need to sell off the Chrome browser as part

Perplexity Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko said he didn’t want to testify in a trial about how to resolve Google’s search monopoly because he feared retribution from Google. But after being subpoenaed to appear in court, he seized the moment to pitch a business opportunity for his AI company: buying Chrome.

In fact, I'm just young enough that my first non-IE browser wasn't Chrome, but Firefox. My family purchased our first "modern" desktop PC in 2006 after I got an iPod nano for my birthday (no, Windows 95 did not support iTunes,