Chrome Browser Share: Certified at 2%

WebTrends Analytics certified that 2% of the visitors to telegraph.co.uk used the Google Chrome browser.

(”telegraph.co.uk” is the website for Britain’s highest selling news paper, The Daily Telegraph)

This number is larger than the number of visitors using Netscape, Mozilla, Opera and other browsers.

Is Safari losing market share to Chrome?

Safari wasn’t mentioned, but if you read what Greg Keizer reports in Computerworld, Chrome isn’t stealing market share from Safari.

The full Market Watch article about the WebTrends Analytics info is here.

Greg Keizer’s full article is here.

Google’s Chrome – the “iPod” of browsers

Sometimes when you back and look at something you’ve read before, you see new things due to the passage of time.

I re-read the Google press release about Chrome.

In it, Sundar Pichai, Google’s Vice President of Product Management said “We think of the browser as the window to the web”.

That in itself is cool to see and think about, both simple and philosophical.

Next he says “it’s a tool for users to interact with the web sites and applications they care about, and it’s important that we don’t get in the way of that experience” and I see the passion he and the rest of the team have about creating a great product for customers.

In other words, “we’re going to make you a great tool that’s very important to the things you do, but at the same time, we’re doing everything we can to be an invisible part of that process”.

In the last part of the paragraph that I like, he says “Just like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome has a simple user interface with a sophisticated core to enable the modern web.”

Does the concept of a “use it every day” product made of sophisticated technology and wrapped with a simple interface remind you of anything?

If not, turn up your iPod, relax and see if anything comes to mind.

See the full press release from Google is here at Business Wire.

See the cool new iPod nano’s from Apple here.

Chrome for Mac next, Sorry Linux; Plus New Developer Tools

Speaking at Web 2.0 Expo, Google’s Ojan Vafai talked about Chrome coming to the Mac before Linux due to size of each market.

Maybe more interesting to the non-Mac users were Ojan’s comments about “soon to come” Chrome developer tools to make it easier to develop in Javascript.

Perhaps there will be a set of standard Chrome libraries to handle all the Javascript necessary for UI elements like dialog boxes and toolbars.

When a platform has great development tools that make developer’s lives easier, more time can be spent on creating new features.

Way to go Google!

More detail on Ojan’s talk from Larry Dignan at ZDNet here.

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