Perplexity low-balls Google with $34.5B offer for Chrome

Article title: Perplexity offers more than twice its total valuation to buy Chrome from Google

Ars does A/B testing on its headlines: Authors submit two versions, and for the first few hours visitors will randomly see either one. Whichever one draws more clicks becomes the permanent headline.

Interestingly, the URL remains constant, which is why you'll often see a disparity between it and the headline.

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44877656

Lowball: to calculate something at a price or level that is unfairly low.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/lowball

(I did not know the expression and admittedly understood it in a completely obscene way)

>AI startup Perplexity is powering a new AI-powered search engine on Truth Social, President Donald Trump's social media platform.

I don't understand why anyone would use them. If they get chrome, I'll switch to firefox. hate them too much.

They're doing it for money. The vast majority of people and companies out there do stuff for money.