Chromium: Google’s Newest Gold
The Google Chrome Web browser, which was recently released in the market has been steadily giving up its gains to Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. It was reported that during the first day of its release Sept. 2 2008, Google Chrome gained more than 1% of the market share or roughly around 2 million downloads within the first 48 hours. Since then, the upstart browser has fallen to 0.77% as of last week, with the losses shared evenly between IE and Firefox. I myself tried it but it has yet to be tested for bugs and other unforeseen problems. Many people gave it a try but didn’t really continue using it. That has always been the case with beta applications. Some people fear that by using Chrome, Google will amass a large amount of data. Privacy is always an issue, right? Its obvious that Google launched the browser without the media hype and all the works. Many believe that Google is not mainly interested in market share competition with IE and Firefox but as core product for the search engine’s online applications.
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