Google Chrome Hits the 30 Million User Mark

Google always love to toot their own horn, especially when it comes to their baby browser: Google Chrome. Announcing that there are 30 million active users of the web browser Chrome is either a big media beat up to indeed ‘toot their own horn’ or merely state the facts to the rest of the web browsing community in the hope of being taken more seriously as a competitor in the browser market (I tend to believe the former).

I will not disagree, 30 million users is quite large-when you compare it to the population, of lets say, Australia, with a mere 22 million. However if you were to compare it to its competitors (which are much more substantial in comparison), it has a tiny 3.58 percent market share compared to the likes of Internet Explorer with 65pc and Mozilla Firefox claiming 24 pc percent of the market.

In my opinion either of these are better performing browsers; but it’s important to note that both are more established browsers and have had time to develop more of a following (more so with Mozilla Firefox). Chrome only launched about a year ago, so this increase in usership and market share is not one to be taken lightly – hence Google making this announcement.

The team that developed Chrome received a Google Founder’s award for the developments that have been made thus far (which has been won previously by the teams that created AdSense, Google Maps and Gmail). So what does this mean for us? It means that Google are definitely taking their browser quite seriously and want to compete with the big boys at Microsoft and Mozilla. With Google taking Chrome seriously, you can expect as a user of this browser to have more updates and increase in functionality as time progresses.

Having healthy competition between browser developers is a great thing because it helps them strive towards a better product for the end user. Users of any browser can expect to have an improved experience on the web because of browsers like Chrome and Opera pushing Apple, Mozilla and Microsoft to make a better product (as well as innovating more themselves). With Google Chrome’s usership bound to increase over time, it will be interesting to monitor whether it one day will be on par with Internet Explorer and Firefox- only time will tell.

Havent tried it yet?

Try Google Chrome and let me know what you think or which browser you use and why you decided to use it (Microsoft Internet Explorer users need not respond .

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