Google’s latest invention is a browser, Google Chrome
September 3rd, 2008Browser, Chrome, Computers, Google
Firefox may have found a warm fuzzy spot in many web-savvy users’ hearts, but I’m completely blown away by the new browser Google Chrome. Google Chrome was pretty much unknown to the public until yesterday, when details emerged on Blogoscoped.
Google has apparently sent out comic books in the mail. The 38-page teaser illustrated by Scott McCloud demonstrates everything Chrome is about. The main concept is to be extremely simple, which is pretty much Google’s overall philosophy. The other concept is that web applications can be launched from desktop bookmarks in standalone windows. Google has coined this feature “Google Gears.”
Today the Chrome beta came out and you can download it yourself to try it out. I’m actually writing this post in Chrome.
So far only one word comes to my mind when I think of Google Chrome: amazing. The interface is beautifully simple. What are your thoughts, a potential Firefox killer?
My thoughts? Google better not be evil. The thing is, Google has totally simplified my life. The Google search engine and gmail have radically redefined my technological expectations. But what I am giving Google in return for the effortless search for information, the elegant organization of my email correspondence? So much information. So much data. Scares me.