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
Sorry I'll stick with Safari and IE.
By the way: do you have cookies enabled in Safari and IE? I bet you do -- and thus your browser is being used to collect anonymous data to track user travel and deliver advertising, whether you know it or not. ;)
I wouldn't call Google an underdog, either (if that's what you were doing -- if not, don't worry about it).
The fact is, all browsers collect data and push them to a server of the company at hand. However, I would rather have IE and Safari than a browser made by a company who made it's billions by advertising.
My reasons for not liking Google Chrome have nothing to do with this thread. Thus is why I didn't go into them in depth.
However, with that said, I think the 1% (some people are claiming 3%) have nothing to do with their concrete market share.
valleywag.com/5044902/the-5-most-laughable-terms-of-service-on-the-net
Already uninstalled.
However, like some of the commenters on Valleywag stated, these all-encroaching claims of ownership cease when you stop using that company's product, though IANAL.