Well, another summer and what did Google do? They built a brower called Chrome and according to some sources they took 1% market share in day 1! Some predict that Chrome can over take Firefox in 2 years, well maybe my math is wrong but it could be more like 2 months (this tracking service show 2.9% already – see below).
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Riaz Kanani // 4 September 2008 at 4:14 pm |
I am seeing Chrome in my stats as well – I had thought I saw Google say Chrome was passing itself off as Firefox for the moment and that you couldn’t detect them just yet.. obviously not!
dylanfuller // 5 September 2008 at 9:42 am |
I was checking the http://getclicky.com/global-marketshare-statistics page and it looks like Chrome has dropped (2.9% to 2.6%). This leads me to believe that people are trying it out and some are moving back to IE and Firefox. Still getting 1-2% marketshare this fast is amazing and raises a lot of interesting questions, especially for IE and Safari.
The dust settles, dimming Chrome's lustre | Sandlines // 2 October 2008 at 2:57 pm |
[...] thing seems sure: the enthusiastic “Chrome will take over the world” response to it’s initial (high) take up looks premature. Once again, substance will have to out over [...]