The utility of Google’s Chrome

Google Chrome comic image It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Super Google! You’d think the search engine king had just found the cure for cancer today with the Chrome Web browser/application announcement.

Most immediately, it will rival Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox browser of course. It’s long-term impact is very much a subject of debate despite the hyperbole and HTML code spilled onto the Web over Google’s shiny new Web toy.

What’s more fun was to sift through the bevy of theories as to what Google’s end game is with the Web app.

The most popular reason for Chrome’s creation? Naturally, that it’s going to meant to slay the mighty Microsoft or at least undercut the value of the company’s ubiquitous Windows operating system, leaving Linux or some other variant to do the grunt work on the desktop.

Here are a few other popular theories being bandied about on the Web:

Chrome is designed so that Google to SPY on you! Yes, that’s right. Sergey Brin and Larry Page want to monitor your every Web movement.

Google, naturally, has refuted the charges in its own inimitable way - via a blog post. Queries and an interesting discussion about the purpose of the browser and how it will solve world peace can be found on the Google blog as well.

Then, there’s of course the mobile arena. Chrome, according to Dow Jones, is supposed to help Google control the mobile phone like Microsoft has been able to with the desktop computer.

Finally, leave it to TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington to declare Chrome as reason enough not to use Microsoft products even though he’s never used Google’s latest creation.

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September 3, 2008 | Filed Under News Items and Commentary 

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One Response to “The utility of Google’s Chrome”

  1. faded on September 7th, 2008 9:27 pm

    You’re right about most immediately it’ll compete with Firefox and Internet Explorer. If you check the stats on this “fan” site looks like it’s already a big hit. But I suspect those numbers are just tech geeks and not the true general population.

    Visitor Stats
    09/02/2008 to 09/07/2008
    http://www.surfchrome.com

    46.69% Chrome
    37.05% Firefox
    11.45% Internet Explorer
    02.26% Safari
    01.96% Opera
    00.60% Mozilla

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