Google takes aim at Microsoft with new Web browser
September 2nd, 2008 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE , AP Technology Writer
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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Chrome is going to have to be something special to grab users.
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.
I going to trust G00gle - NOT
Also the only reason IE dominates is because it ships with Windows OS, and is really hard to totally uninstall.
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?)