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Google Chrome Tops 1 Billion Users

Posted by timothy on from the and-they're-grateful-for-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Venture Beat: At the I/O 2015 developer conference today, Sundar Pichai, Google's senior vice president of product, announced that Chrome has passed 1 billion active users. Less than a year ago, Google revealed Android has over 1 billion active users. These are indeed Google's biggest ecosystems. Google also shared that Google Search, YouTube, and Google Maps all have over 1 billion users as well. Gmail will reach the milestone next; it has 900 million users.

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  1. guys, i got an idea! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Screw the open internet. Let's put EVERYTHING on Google! No.... Let's make Google be the internet!!

    Who's with me on this?

    What could possibly go wrong?

    Captcha: amassed!

    1. Re:guys, i got an idea! by ArcadeMan · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Some people already seem to think that Facebook is the Internet.

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    2. Re:guys, i got an idea! by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 4, Insightful

      And people used to think that AOL was "the internet". They were wrong then, too.

  2. Probably a more useful metric than social networks by damn_registrars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    While there are certainly people who are running chrome on different unlinked devices, this measurement is probably still a lot more meaningful than when facebook says it has 12 billion users. Similarly, I'm not sure how meaningful the measurement of 900 million gmail accounts is; I have more than one myself.

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  3. Re:Probably a more useful metric than social netwo by ArcadeMan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Going with the free email from your ISP means that you lose your email address if/when you switch to another ISP.

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  4. Re:And here I am about to ditch Chrome... by Imagix · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Somehow I've never understood the penchant for people to have tens of tabs open in a browser. Right now I have 4, and two of them are email tabs. The only time I get anywhere near tens of tabs is when I'm actively searching for things and I open potential results as a new tab. But as I go through and determine which are useful, I close the rest until I'm down to the 1 or 2 that I actually need. With hundreds of tabs, how do you even find the tab that you need?