Thursday, September 4th 2008
Google Chrome Claims 1% Market-Share in Just 9 Hours
On September the 3rd, Google released a beta version of its upcoming Chrome web-browser software. The beta was released at 3:02 PM EDT and it captured 0.5% of the browser market share in just 2 hours of release. What's more, by the end of 9 hours since launch, the browser had already captured 1% of the market. Net Applications found that value to fluctuate but the browser currently is looking above the 1% mark. Data was collected studying the browser's ID:
Source:
TG Daily
Official Build 1583The numbers are mind-boggling. Considering there are about 1.46 Billion internet users, 1% should take at least 14 million users to keep that value. In other terms, the number of times Chrome beta may have been downloaded looks threatening to Mozilla. It wouldn't be too far sighted to think Google Chrome could challenge Mozilla's world record when (or if) a stable release does come out (G-Mail is still beta). The browser has received a largely positive response albeit issues concerning its privacy policy, where irregularities were noted. All in all, Google did manage to make heads turn.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13
136 Comments on Google Chrome Claims 1% Market-Share in Just 9 Hours
Nobody's picking on our beloved Microsoft -- where did I say that they were any worse? I just saw a funny comparison, and decided to make it. ;)
I rest my case :toast:
There's nothing wrong with having a discussion about one and involving the other, at this point. It's not like we're talking about two vastly different fields of industry here.
It is very useful for interior design, I've used it to make a model of my house so I can play around with the interior design. Plus, you've got something called 3D Warehouse, where people upload their own models of things to save you making everything from scratch.
Some things I can't be bothered making, like a monitor for example, so I got the sketchup model of my 2408s from the 3D Warehouse.
I've attached an example of one of the rooms from my house model.
:p
If I am wrong here, please explain how Microsoft doing similar things affect the issue.
So to answer your first question, yes, I really think so.
Quite the contradiction here:So when IE7 asks you to change the settings to your likings it's bad. When Google does so it's a blessing.
Looks like I can make some decent things in it, I'll try it at home.
Where I do think it's bad though is for the people who are a bit wary or not very clued up when it comes to computers who are sometimes cleverly tricked into installing some other software. Messenger Plus Live add-on for MSN messenger springs to mind.
It has an odd way of wording its question of installing third party software, you have to check the box to say you don't want it, and the box says 'I refuse to give my support to the sponsors' or something to that effect.
Most people will just steam on ahead because checkboxes most of the time indicated a decision to install something instead of a confirmation that you don't want it installed.
Oh well :ohwell:
Back on topic, I really didn't find Chrome to be of much use. My home page is an html page that I wrote that contains links to all of the sites I visit frequently. I find it to be much easier than the new "recently visited" page that Chrome uses. I know that I can just set my home page the same way in Chrome, but then it does not really do any more for me than IE.
That and Chrome was just thrashing the hard drive even when it was just idling. Not sure what it was doing.
While I can use a lot of other CAD software, I prefer Sketchup over them all when it comes to modeling in 3D as I enjoy using it a lot more than others. They're just not as intuitive.
3DSMax for example is a pain the ass to do modeling work in in comparison to sketchup, but as I said earlier, I use it 3DSMax mostly for texturing/applying materials/lighting to produce nicely rendered images.
Though I do agree with you, all their software is free. I personally don't mind ads or being asked to install the google toolbar, as long as I've always got the option/choice to opt out of installing the addition 'wares.
I'm surprised you think differently. Do you not think that Microsoft is an industry standard and thus should be the recipient of this kind of argument?Never said IE7 asking you was bad -- but what Google does is better, and makes what IE7 does look like forcing you. Depending upon the average computer user to manually change something is almost ridiculous.
Just for the record, I am NOT some sort of Google evangelist -- I personally find some of their data mining practices quite reprehensible, for instance. They seem to be a company that was (and still is) quite a cool company, but one that is quickly turning into just another industry player like Microsoft.
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And who said something about adds in the Gmail? I dont see any? :wtf:
And it's not just the checkbox, I stated more than that.
And Google has released some nifty software in it's time. I lvoe Gmail - but how it's still in the beat stage after 3 years is just beyond me.
And Google Earth is also good but i don't really use it that much. Also i have recently found iGoogle which lets you customise your homepage which i found very useful.
On topic however - most of those 14 odd million that downloaded Chrome will probably uninstall it the next day.