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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. And here I am about to ditch Chrome... by Electricity+Likes+Me · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And here I am about to ditch Chrome for Firefox because the 4+gb of memory usage on desktop with a bunch of inactive tabs open is meaning I can't really do work properly anymore because my machine is liable to lock up from running out of memory. And this isn't hundreds of tabs - it's like, 30-40 tops.

    1. 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?

  4. 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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  5. Re:Billions by ArcadeMan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let the RIAA count those numbers again, because I'm pretty sure the total should be around 600 billion users.

    Then again if you let Verizon do the math, Google only has 60 million users.

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  6. Pretty cool for beta by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 3, Funny

    Imagine! What the user base is going to be once they are out of beta and do the first release.

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