What is the benefit of Google that they give their engine for free to use other browsers?

Question

Browsers

Yandex Browser, Opera - they use the Chromium engine. Why does Google let you use its engine for free? Do they collect statistics from each user?

Answer 1

Because it's not really their engine. Chromium is built on top of the Blink engine, which is a fork of the WebKit engine (developed by Apple) which in turn is a fork of the KHTML engine (developed by the KDE project). Closing it or rewriting it from scratch is a rather hemorrhagic task even for Google. Of course, they have enough resources, but they don’t seem to see much point in this.