Google takes aim at Microsoft with new Web browser

Image: Internet search giant Google's logo. Google says it processes more than 200 million searches a day and leads the world for search engine usage with 57 percent of the current market, followed by Yahoo at 21 percent and MSN at just 9 percent.

(AP) -- Google Inc. is releasing its own Web browser in a long-anticipated move aimed at countering the dominance of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer and ensuring easy access to its market-leading search engine.

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• CreepyD - Sep 02, 2008
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  Since Firefox 3, it appears it's catching up with IE.. I have 64% of hits on my site from FireFox..
  Chrome is going to have to be something special to grab users.
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• sundoc - Sep 02, 2008
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  Yup, its going to have to be easier and cheaper.
  
  You make your money on Average Joe/Jane. He/she/it doesn't really care if it does more. Its just got to be easier to use and i'd guess cost less.
  
  Real trick is to get Chrome/FireFox into end products b4 purchase. Heck, Vista is driving the cost up by what, $200 a computer? Put Chrome/Firefox as an option and knock $200 off the top and you sell more computers. Simple really.
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• Doug_Huffman - Sep 02, 2008
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  'Chrome' now with enhanced privacy controls from G00gle.
  
  I going to trust G00gle - NOT
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• MGraser - Sep 02, 2008
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  More info on the Official Google Blog: http://googleblog...ser.html
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• Assaad33 - Sep 02, 2008
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  GO GOOOOOOOOOOGLE GOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!
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• earls - Sep 02, 2008
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  Now available: http://www.google.com/chrome
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• jplur - Sep 02, 2008
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  was this the 'generic project' that google has been working on?
  
  Also the only reason IE dominates is because it ships with Windows OS, and is really hard to totally uninstall.
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• gopher65 - Sep 02, 2008
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  So... why exactly is this better than Firefox? I see nothing here except G00gle trying to replace M$ as our friendly neighbourhood monopoly. They're using slightly different tactics of course. They're trying to dominate the ad market instead of simply dominating sales. But the end result is the same to consumers. We pay for ad-driven content as surely as we pay up front for conventional delivery; it's just more roundabout this way.
  
  I really don't understand why some people can't get it through their fat heads that adware ISN'T FREE. Who do you think pays for those ads? And where do they get their money? That's right, from you. But in order to make up for paying all that money in ads, they have to charge more for their product...
  
  This product may not *directly* be adware, but it is certainly designed to facilitate the replacement of conventional software with pure adware. And, personally, I'd rather have a *choice* as to whether I purchase an expensive product, instead of having that product be "free", and it's cost spread throughout the rest of that companies products. (Sound familiar? Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, etc?)
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