SearchEngineUpdate with Vanessa Zamora - 09-02-2008 Part I
Abstract: Google Chrome Web Browser Release
Vanessa Zamora
Video Content Producer, SearchEngineWorld
8:28 pm on Sep. 2, 2008 (utc 0)
Transcript
Tuesday September 02, 2008
Google Chrome Web Browser Release
Google today is releasing its own web browsing software called Google Chrome, which will be available first for Microsoft Windows users. Google Chrome is designed to work better with video rich or other complex web programs more commonly available today, a retreat from and potential challenge for standard browsers designed originally to handle text and graphics. Google Chrome will compete with market leader Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, of which the latest version 8 was released last month and eventually with Mozilla's Firefox and Apple’s Safari browser for Macintosh computers. Google is also working on a Chrome version for Linux, an open source operating system. Google outlines the Chrome browser capabilities in a cartoon depiction where it promises the browser will be more stable, will load pages faster and more securely, and will also include a new engine for loading interactive JavaScript code, known as V8, that is designed to run the next generation of Web applications. An important feature of Google Chrome lets users run search sessions in a privacy mode called InCognito, to prevent Google from collecting information about a persons browsing history. Showing its support for a more open Web, Google plans to make all of its code open source to help drive innovation. Once available for testing on Tuesday, today, the browser can be downloaded at www.google.com/chrome/.
