9/01/2008, The long anticipated release of the google web browser is here. There are already indexed links to the download page but it is not currently up yet. Sometime today this download will be live though. Google announced the release of an open-source web browser known as Google Chrome, a beta version which will be released on Tuesday in more than 100 countries.

Google Chrome Statistics and Usage

But Webmasters, over the world has same worry about privacy, not many webmasters are really open to use Google’s Browser Chrome as everyone is aware that Google’s Main reason behind this launch is data collection and analysis.

I have personally installed it and So far I’m a bit impressed. Seems like a mixture of FireFox and Opera so far. Haven’t tested it to much yet so we’ll see if the impressiveness continues.

It did automatically take all the bookmarks and passwords etc from firefox during the install so I didn’t have to go back to all the sites and put in the info again.

Google Chrome Browser Look

One source is saying that Chrome already has a market share of 2.6%, not bad growth for one day.

Lets see how far they go ahead with Chrome, They have started it advertising all over Orkut, Youtube and other networks owned by Google Inc. I’ve seen people complaining that The two don’t go together so well (Chrome Browser and Facebook Ads):

1. It’s impossible to delete campaigns.
2. The little magnifying glass to quickly adjust bids no longer work.

It’s still a great browser though.

So in short, people have mix feeling, but lets hope Google does not face another failure with their new web product.