By Mahbub Manik
Logo Of Google Chrome
On Friday last I got into Internet through Internet Explorer (A Microsoft's product) and searched 'Obama' using Google search (A product of Google Inc) and it showed the links of 1 - 10 of about 150,000,000 links for obama in 0.16 seconds. As a browser Internet Explorer of Microsoft and as a search engine Google is the first and easy choice for Netizens.
To retrieve any information from the sea of Internet, Google is unparallel till today, though there are many beautiful search tools are in the market. Google Inc has many products in market but all did not get that much of popularity like Google Search. But the breaking news is that Google for the first time released a web browser and declared its dream to emerge as a market leader.
Simply we can say that web browser is a door to enter inside Internet. It is a software application which enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. Some of the Web browsers currently available for personal computers include Mozilla Firefox, Avant Browser Safari, Google Chrome, Konqueror, Opera, Flock, Internet Explorer, Epiphany, K-Meleon and AOL ExplorerContents.
Beta version of 475k sized of Google Chrome is now available at no cost for Windows Vista and Windows XP. Google said it's still working on versions compatible with Apple Inc.'s Mac and the Linux operating system. And will be work in Linux and other open source operating system in full speed soon.
Highlights of Chrome:
According to Google, Chrome is an ambitious attempt but not a me-too product or a rebranding of someone else's browser, but a significantly new contestant.
-It has a tab-centric interface, with a default home page that shows snapshots of your favorite sites and new memory management techniques designed to prevent tabs from bogging down your browsing;
- It uses sandboxing to prevent malware from doing damage to your PC
- It includes built-in anti-phishing
- It uses an all-new JavaScript implementation designed to provide snappy performance for Web-based applications.
"The Web gets better with more options and innovation," Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president of product management, and Linus Upson, Google's engineering director, wrote in the posting. "Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the Web even better
75 percent of the web surfers use Internet Explorer of Microsoft. The pressure between Microsoft and Google now appears probable to escalate with Google's attack into Web browsing. Microsoft has been trying to thwart Google by investing billions in the development of its own search engine and making an unsuccessful attempt to buy Yahoo Inc. for $47.5 billion.
End of the day it's a war to control Internet!
The article was published on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at Weekly Economic Times
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