If they at least did 100-200bn... But this is probably mostly to signal to the US courts that there are parties interested/fianancially able to buy Chrome and to establish them as a bidder when/if Chrome actually should be sold. Also, just getting attention on Perplexity AI whose products are losing comparative advantage rapidly as the AI firms add search capability to their models.
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Unusual. Quid pro quo. Unprecedented.
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