Google Chrome Worth ‘Upwards of $50 Billion,’ Browser Rival Says

Google’s Chrome web browser could be sold for as much as $50 billion, the chief executive officer of rival search engine DuckDuckGo testified Wednesday at the Justice Department’s antitrust trial against the internet giant.

“I think it’s upwards of $50 billion if it went on the market, and that’s out of DuckDuckGo’s price range,” said Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo, which operates a privacy-focused search engine and browser.

Weinberg, who said the estimate was “back-of-the-envelope” math based on Chrome’s user base, testified as part of a three-week hearing in the DOJ’s case against Alphabet Inc.’s Google to determine ...