Google Chrome OEM Strategy To Take On IE

ruphus13 writes "In an effort to take on IE and make strong headway in its share of the browser market, Google is taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook and working on deals with PC OEMs to include Chrome in their devices. From the article: '[Google] is likely to pursue deals with major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to put Chrome on their computers and devices. ... If Mozilla could get aggressive about this too, we could see Internet Explorer facing more serious competition than ever. ... Google, much more so than Mozilla, has enough global brand recognition, money, and savvy to make a big deal of this. ... Microsoft wooed Dell, Compaq, HP, Gateway, Acer and many other companies into making its browser the default choice on Windows desktops. Chrome currently has just under one percent market share, according to NetApplications. That number could rise significantly through this effort. Mozilla doesn't have the kind of money required to get the significant deals in this space, but Google definitely does.'"

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Re:Television Ads

[PPH]

We are Microsoft and we defile the standards.

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Re:Will it really matter ?

[tomhudson]

Has anyone else noticed that almost everywhere you look now, the name Google appears. Was a time when Google meant search engine, now it appears the word Google can mean almost anything.... Seems to me that Google is looking to make themselves the biggest brand in the world...and once you have that power, you can sell almost anything, and name your price

Has anyone else googled that almost everywhere you google now, the name Google appears. Was a google when Google meant google google, now it appears the word Google can google almost anything.... Seems to me that Google is googling to make themselves the biggest brand in the googleplex...and once you have that googlishiousness, you can google almost anything, and name your google.

There - fixed it for you.

-- (signed) : Your evil^Wgoogle overlord.