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
ok here's a situation: Gmail reads your email. Based on the content of your email, ads are generated. What if, you're sending your friend/mom/relative some important PIN relating to money transfer, it gets read by the bot as well, would you risk sending such data? Suppose someone misuses that PIN, you can't knock on Google's door. Why? because that's a beta. They're not responsible for any damages caused to you by using it.
EDIT: The icon reminds me of Pokemon, which is suck, I think they should change it.
Anyway, I would really like to point out that it is not a good idea to send a PIN number or ANY account information that has to do with financials over e-mail. No matter what you use as a client.
@Wile W : Thanks for agreeing with my statement that if you are too impatient to take a moment to configure your software you only have yourself to blame. Your reputation with the Kreij faction has been increased by +1. :D
Google can have the internet. They've caused me no harm, and have given me nothing but candy in return.
But they can't have my wife, my Jeep Wrangler or my ATV and trailer.
They can have my chainsaws and wood splitter if they bring me firewood before winter.
They can't have my pontoon boat and fishing stuff either.
They can have my old Ford van.
They DEFINITELY cannot have my Bobcat skid steer.
They can have my navel lint if they pay shipping.
Okay enough fun :D My apologies to anyone reading this thread.
Personally, I like stuff. I like bells and whistles. I like to see what is happening at a glance, not have to dig for details. Bah ... Maybe I am just old school. (shrug)
Hiding all of the details from users reminds me of what Apple does (or at least used to do, I am not well versed in the current iterations of their OS).
It's kind of like having to tune your car radio to a specific channel to have the car tell you how much gas you have instead of just putting a gas gauge on the dashboard.