Chrome Browser Shows 4.62% Growth In Market Share on www.chromevoice.com

(see chart below)

Looks like the world is jumping on the reports of the Google Chrome browser’s small market share drop over the last week.

The news was the opposite for “The Chrome Voice”.

Here at www.chromebrowser.com, we saw an increase of 4.62% for Chrome.

Sure we’re a small site with a very targeted topic, but the change has been significant. 

Since last week, the numbers actually show an increase for both Chrome and Safari, but a loss for IE, Firefox, Opera, Mozilla and Seamonkey.

Since I last measured on 9/17/08, here’s how things have changed:

• Chrome usage rose from 45.69% to 50.31%
   
• Firefox usage fell from 34.01% to 33.07%
   
• IE usage fell from 15.74% to 12.23%
   
• Safari usage rose from 2.03% to 2.66%
   
• Opera usage fell from 1.52% to 1.41%
   
• Both Mozilla and Seamonkey dropped from 0.51% to 0.16%
   

The 9/23/08 stats for www.chromevoice.com are:

1.	Chrome		50.31%
2.	Firefox		33.07%
3.	Internet Explorer		12.23%
4.	Safari		2.66%
5.	Opera		1.41%
6.	Mozilla		0.16%
7.	SeaMonkey		0.16%

 

It will be interesting to watch both the trend here at www.chromebrowser.com and the larger trends tracked by others world wide.

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.

Chrome’s Omnibox to go anonymous in 24 hours

On the Google Blog, Sr Vice President of Operations, Urs Holzle, announced today that IP addresses logged by the Google Suggest feature in Chrome’s Omnibox will go anonymous “within about 24 hours”.

The change comes about in response to criticism and concerns raised about Google storing IP addresses and search terms of Chrome users.

Good move Google!

Seriously though, Google also says that they were only holding data from 2% of the users. This means it wasn’t holding 98% of the data it received. Still, it’s great that Google stood up and did the right thing.

Separately, Sean Carlson, Google’s Australia public affairs rep, reportedly said that Google doesn’t capture any more information than what is already being captures by Microsoft (IE), Mozilla (Firefox), and Apple (Safari).

That may be true or it may not be true, but now at least we have an official policy from Google which provides us with an alternative.

You can read Urs Holzle’s full post here.

Chris Keall at National Business Review New Zealand has more about this topic in his article here.