It was just a matter of time before the company that dominates the market for online searches, which triumphed with its email service, which devastates with its maps and who opened their blogs and also the 'videomanía' internet with the purchase YouTube, also had its own browser. For months the network was a hotbed of rumors: Google is about to close the circle and launched its own platform navigation at any time.
Having said and done. Starting from today, the company that has done more to Microsoft executives suffer from insomnia hang over a hundred countries in the first version, free and open source, its new flagship product, "Chrome".
According to executives of the company explained in its official blog, a browser is completely different from those that can be found today (Explorer, Microsoft, Firefox, Mozilla and Safari, Apple). All of them, they say, are designed primarily to serve clients text and photos, but "Chrome" is specially designed for the rapid management of videos and other complex web applications posed a continuous challenge, and a limitation for designers of these navigation tools.
Rethinking the browser
"We realized that the Web has evolved from simple text pages, to a world of interactive applications, and that what was needed to completely rethink the browser", explained in his blog official Google vice president of product Pichai Sind and the engineering manager of the firm, Linus Upson. The version "beta" which is released tomorrow will only be valid for computers that run under Windows, but soon "Chrome" is also available for Macintosh users, Apple, and Linux.
"What we really need to write-Pichai and Upson-is not just a browser, but also a modern platform for managing websites and applications, and that's what we built." Google's browser, for whose design had been "borrowed" other projects using open source developed by Apple or Mozilla, promises speeds navigation hitherto unknown, and includes a system through which the error on a website not concrete blocks throughout the program.
"The horizon of browsers is highly competitive," said general manager of Microsoft Explorer, Dean Hachamovitch. "Chrome was inevitable," says the president for his part Mozilla, John Lilly. Both companies have just launched the latest versions of its software (8 Explorer and Firefox 3), and so far hold respectively 75% and 20% of the market for this burgeoning sector. Google has agreements with both to "embed" their tools. From now on, however, things could be very different.
A promotional comic book of 38 pages that explains step by step the characteristics of 'Croma' has been filtered by Google prematurely and can be seen already in http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome.
