Google’s Chrome Grabs Market, But It’s Not Finished

September 5th, 2008

Google Chrome. It’s a browser that was admittedly still in the development oven when Google released it, so are Internet Explorer 8-killer comments premature? Some analysts think so.On Tuesday, Google launched its latest innovation: a new open-source browser intended to create a better Web experience. Chrome is now available in more than 40 languages for the Windows operating system.

Flanked by promises on one side and hype on the other, Chrome took one percent of the global browser market within a day of launch, according to Web traffic-analysis company StatCounter.

“This is a phenomenal performance,” said Aodhan Cullen of StatCounter. “This is war on Microsoft , but the big loser could be Firefox.” StatCounter’s analysis also revealed that Internet Explorer holds 70 percent of the global browser market, followed by Firefox with 22 percent.

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