Google Turns 10…and a Chrome follow up.
By Tom on Sep 6, 2008 in web2.0
Here is a quick summary of Google’s progression over the last 10 years presented by Fortune on Cnnmoney.com. Its hard to believe 10 years has past since Larry and Sergey started out of a garage in Menlo Park. Congrats to Google for their success and many years of success to come.
I just want to review the past week for Google – Chrome launched after a premature start out of the gate. Following the launch, there was an immediate positive response in fact, that according to some statistics gatherers it is already beating Opera in terms of numbers, taking in a little over 2.6% market share.
Immediately I noticed some great browsing speed and a lack of crashing on my ol’Windows-driven PC — even when I started to browse some pretty rich internet content sites. However , until Chrome supports plug-in’s and Apple Leopard, I will not even consider making Chrome my primary browser.
In closing, if you thought the premature release of the comic book was misstep, looks like copy-paste got the best of someone at Google. The original EULA that everybody did not read before accepting the download gave Google ownership over all user generated content posted to the internet through their browser. Pretty Evil stuff for a company that strives not to be evil 
Tags: googlechrome, rich internet applications, immersive internet,
6 Comment(s)
By Rick Vaughn on Sep 22, 2008 | Reply
Isn’t funny how Google, Yahoo are these huge mega companies now. What the hell did Altavista do wrong? It just shows right people at the right time.
By Eric on Sep 28, 2008 | Reply
It seems that Chrome was immature in many ways. Almost a month later and I still am not seeing much of an impact in which browser software my users are reading my blog with. 2.6% seems to be an over estimate – I see about .5% on my site, but maybe I am the anomaly?
By fat loss 4 idiots on Oct 8, 2008 | Reply
Not bad! I appreciate your effort in writing this
By kouji on Oct 19, 2008 | Reply
sometimes it feels like google’s been around forever. still, i can remember the bad old days of search, pre-google, when looking for something online could be terribly frustrating.
By Amol Wagh on Mar 10, 2009 | Reply
Wanna let all know that Google offered two of Indian engineeres for sale some years back. They refused the offer. Then again that engineers offered a buy, which was refused by google. Now Google is a Giant. And it could be theirs. Now That engineers have launched search engine named Kosmix.
By Fat loss 4 idiots on Jun 12, 2009 | Reply
Use Chrome as it's very fast and easy to use