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Google Chrome Becomes World's No. 1 Browser

Posted by samzenpus on from the top-of-the-class dept.

redletterdave writes "Just six months after Google Chrome eclipsed Mozilla's Firefox to become the world's second most popular Web browser, Chrome finally surpassed Microsoft's Internet Explorer on Sunday to become the most-used Web browser in the world, according to Statcounter. Since May 2011, Internet Explorer's global market share has been steadily decreasing from 43.9 percent to 31.4 percent of all worldwide users. In that time, Chrome has climbed from below 20 percent to nearly 32 percent of the market share. Yet, while Chrome is now the No. 1 browser in the world, it still lags behind Internet Explorer here in the U.S., but that will soon change. Chrome currently has 27.1 percent of the U.S. market share, compared to Internet Explorer's 30.9 percent, but IE is seeing significant drop-offs in usage while Chrome continues to rise."

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  1. No wonder Chrome is gaining users by partofme · · Score: -1, Troll

    Google blatantly advertisers Chrome on their websites and YouTube (but only to IE users.. heh), they have billboards and TV advertising campaigns, they pay OEM's, hardware manufacturers and shareware/freeware authors to bundle Chrome with their products, they aggressively try to put Chrome on your computer if you install any other software from Google, they pay makers of Angry Birds to have Chrome-only HTML5 version of their game and make websites that purposely only work with Chrome. They game and spam other search engines like Bing too.

    Seems like they went full in and do whatever they can to get that market share. Even supporting CISPA.

    1. Re:No wonder Chrome is gaining users by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Google has demoted its Chrome home page in results for a search using the keyword "browser" following an effort to have bloggers promote the Google browser that backfired. Now, there is no Chrome ad at the top of the results or link to the Chrome page anywhere on the first page of results on Google. It's ranked in position 50, according to Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineLand, which first reported this news.

      The article sez: Google was spamming its own results, but stopped when people called them on it.

  2. What's the difference? by Kergan · · Score: -1, Troll

    Best I can recollect, HTML5 is not standard yet. Or did I miss a boat at some point?

    If anything, implementing or supporting HTML5 is militantism. Doing can arguably lead to de facto standards (see Apple with h.264), but that doesn't necessarily make it right.

  3. Re:Well deserved by awpoopy · · Score: -1, Troll

    I was starting to feel sorry for you and your experience with chrome, the you went and said the magic words "Task Manager". Then I realized you were describing a windows machine. The problem you are experiencing isn't chrome...

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    I say things which affects my Karma negatively. (and I don't care) For instance; All religion is false.