Ron Schenone

Google Chrome – No To Browser War

Posted by on Sep 5, 2008 | 2 Comments

It sure didn’t take long for the media to make the new browser from Google called Chrome an entry into the browser wars. I found several articles that were titled:

Google launches web browser in battle with rival Microsoft

Google takes on Microsoft with browser

Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web

Could Google’s Chrome be death blow to Firefox?

How about this. How about Google seeing that both IE and Firefox were becoming bloated and slow. How about Google wanting a fast browser that could run their applications in which they have invested a lot of time and money trying to develop. How about Google wanting a browser that would diminish the role that the operating system plays.

With this in mind, wouldn’t it make perfect sense for Google to introduce their own browser that will enhance their current crop of cloud applications?

What do you think? Share your thoughts.

Comments welcome.

  • mhz

    Well it seems pretty obvious. They simply want:

    1. To produce all the applications that people use, replacing todays desktop with thin clients that use web services
    2. To determine the results of every single web search that occurs, ever…i.e.:
    3. To make money every time a human being gets an idea that he/she wants to know something, or tell someone something.

    Given those goals, owning the client is the next logical step. Its really just a company that accomplished what Microsoft had hoped to do, but didn’t understand how until it was too late.

  • mhz

    Also, the name that Google chose is offensive. The word “chrome” was already taken. It has a recognized meaning in the industry, and they are trying to hijack it.

    Come on guys. People dont want to have to say “chrome, er, um sorry, you know, not the Google browser, but the other meaning…”

    Its sad, and I would be embarrassed if I worked for them…unless I really WAS someone who thought that ALL OTHER browsers were worthless, and didnt even deserve to have their simple vocabulary respected.

    I mean, if you’re ambitious enough, you might as well name your kid “PRESIDENT”, right? I’m surprised they didn’t just name it Firefox.