14 DAY TRIAL // Recently announced by Sony as the standard web browser on its future selling PCs, Chrome has come a long way since its debut last year – such a long way, that it’s already setting the bar for speed and function, according to a person at Google. Competing web browsers, such as Safari, are faster today because of Chrome, Brain Rakowski, the product management director for Chrome, suggests.
“With Chrome having around 30 million active users, the browser has between two and three percent of the web browser market share,” NeoWin reports. Not bad for a first year, but not quite as good for a Google product, and one as tailored as Chrome, its makers believe.
Lagging way behind Microsoft (with Internet Explorer) and Mozilla (with Firefox), Google is frustrated with the lack of interest / awareness on behalf of the web-browser user base. The search engine giant hopes that, by pre-installing future computers with Chrome, Internet users will start enjoying to use its features, and embrace it.
“Awareness is shockingly low,” Brain Rakowski tells the Financial Times. “It's absolutely a problem that people don't know what a browser is, or how to evaluate one,” the Product Management Director for Chrome adds. However, “It's not so important everyone uses Google Chrome, it's more important browser technology evolves as fast as it can.” Rakowski shares, fueling Google's belief that Chrome is forcing rival web browsers to achieve the same standards in speed, NeoWin reports.
“[...] One of Chrome's strengths when it first launched was being a lot faster that other browsers, and its competitors have now also tried to speed their browsers up,” the report reads. Apple Safari is touted as “the world’s fastest browser,” setting the standard for “elegant browsing.”