It seems Google wants to take over the world, Earlier this week Google released its own web browser Chrome. You can Read the previous post for more information. Currently its available for download only in the Windows Platform (Windows XP SP2/Windows Vista). A statement by Google co-founder Sergey Brin has linked Chrome with Google’s upcoming mobile operating system Android. Just in case if you are wondering what is Android, Android is Google’s Open Source Operating System for the mobile phones (just like Microsoft’s Windows Mobile), already the first handset in development by HTC powered by Android is going to roll out in Q4 2008 or early 2009. The handset is named HTC Dream.

In a recent interview with CNET,Brin claimed that “…a subsequent version of Android is going to pick up a lot of the Chrome stack.”

Both browsers i.e Chrome and Android’s Web Browser are built with the same Webkit rendering engine (Other browsers such as Safari(iPhone), Safari Mobile, and Nokia’s S60 Browser are also powered by this engine) however other features such as the user interface, CSS and JavaScript engines, and support for extensions and plugins will be the ones to look out for.

Google has announced Chrome to be available on both Mac and Linux in the near feature, although the dates not given yet. (You can run Chrome in Linux using Wine though)

Just when I thought Google had done it all, Google proved me wrong once again, this time by launching a web browser ! I was pretty excited to read the latest news – ‘Google Launches Open Source Web Browser – Google Chrome’. Finally Google enters the Browser Battlefield. Click to Download Google Chrome from www.google.com/chrome

There are already lot of browsers available apart from Internet Explorer. Some of them are Mozilla Firefox, Apple’s Safiri, Opera etc. So can Google really take over the ‘Internet Browser’ market as it took over the Internet search market with its search engine ?

Internet Explorer currently holds approx 70% of the market share while Firefox has approx 20%. Upon that Internet Explorer comes pre-installed with every Microsoft OS. Its gonna take time before Google Chrome can gain some momentum in this long race. Google has gone the Open-Source way. Google Chrome has very plain looks. No eye candy here .

Google says Chrome is faster, more secure and easier to use than any other Web browser, especially Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
If there is any error or something has gone wrong with a plugin, Other browsers would immediately freeze up every open tab, but in Google’s browser each tab acts like it has its own engine.

Quote from a Google Employee
“If one Web app misbehaves or one Web app is consuming a lot of your computer’s resources, the rest of the apps can still act very responsively,” Rikowsky says.

Meanwhile, I ran a check on how people have searched on Google for their favourite browsers(The 4 major browsers), and the results were as follows :

Google Trends – internet explorer,safari,opera,firefox

Just in case if you don`t know what Google Trends is, With Google Trends, you can compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics. The Graph shows how often the topics have been searched on Google over time. Google Trends also shows how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and in which geographic regions people have searched for them most.
You can check it out @ http://www.google.com/trends