readwriteweb.com - 11/21/2008
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How did Internet Explorer become the number one browser in the world? Simple - it came with every new computer you purchased, pre-installed and ready to go. Now it seems Google is contemplating doing the same with their browser, Google Chrome . According to Google VP, Product Management, Sundar ...
technology.timesonline.co.uk - 11/21/2008
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technology.timesonline.co.uk —
Google is considering pre-installing its Chrome browser on
personal computers in the search giant s latest challenge...
to the dominance of Microsoft s Internet Explorer. The move would significantly ramp up the browser war that Google launched against ...
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Google mulls pre-installing Chrome browser on computers
daringfireball.net - 11/20/2008
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daringfireball.net —
Google’s just-released and much-publicized update to their Google
Mobile iPhone app features some very clever interaction design...
for the voice search feature. There is an on-screen button you can tap to initiate a voice search manually, but, as ...
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★ Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIs
techcrunch.com - 11/21/2008
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techcrunch.com —
Bucket tests and experimental products are one thing.
But to mess with the real Google search is...
serious stuff. Why did they do it? Google’s overall search share has grown substantially this year (and all other years since it went live). ...
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Google, It Wasn’t Broke
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Google World Domination Plan: Pre-Installed Chrome
Homotron.net —
... since about a month or two after it first dropped. I may be tempted to try it again once the official release comes out. For me, it wasn't that it was a bad browser, but it just wasn't FF3/Flock 2. Have you been using Chrome? Do you think the moms and pops of the world that buy new PCs will be willing to use Chrome if it's pre-installed? Is Google really just trying to take over the entire world?
Google Chrome May Be Pre-installed On New PCs [Read/Write Web]
Worried People Don’t Know What RSS Is? They Don’t Even Care What a Browser Is!
Profy —
... So now Google seems to have two options available: teach people they actually do have an alternative for internet explorer by Microsoft that they already have installed or come up with OEM deals everywhere they can. The OEM way is definitely the preferred one and it is what Google is already contemplating as far as we already know but it is not that easy to have your software pre-installed on as many computers as Microsoft’s now is - even if your name is Google. ...
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