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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Google’s shiny new browser
First came search, then came documents and spreadsheets, now comes a new browser from Google.
The Internet behemoth is taking one more step in its head-to-head fight with Microsoft, introducing an Internet browser on Tuesday that’s designed to compete with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Google boasts that its new browser, which it calls Chrome, is better designed for today’s Internet and to handle Web applications like video or document sharing - two areas where it also has big stakes.
Of course even if Chrome shines, it won’t be easy unseating Microsoft as the king of the Web browsers. Internet Explorer is the most widely used browser in the world.
Google plans to make a beta version of Chrome available for Windows users beginning Tuesday, the company said in a posting on its official blog.
Interestingly enough, the news that Google’s getting into the browser biz came by way of a company-sponsored comic book that apparently was accidentally released by Google mailroom workers a day early, according to the company.
