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Drop in Chrome’s market share: due to Google’s penalty?

Sheuli — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:41:37 +0000

Google Chrome dropped 0.17% in January after 17 consecutive months of gains in market share. Why? The company that tracks browser market share suggests that it’s due to Google’s penalizing Chrome after its messed up, sponsored blog post campaign.

Net Applications, the company that released these figures, says it tracks about 160 million unique visits per month to a worldwide network of more than 40,000 sites.
Their data also shows Firefox and Safari seeing market share losses in January. The browser experiencing gains in January was Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. IE gained 1.09% in the first month of the calendar year, its biggest monthly gain in at least two years.

Google Chrome soon to overtake Firefox’s No.2 position?

Sheuli — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:40:55 +0000

According to StatCounter, an Irish Analytics company, Google Chrome is gaining momentum and may overtake Mozilla Firefox’s No. 2 market share spot as early as December. StatCounter’s data notes that Microsoft’s No.1 Internet Explorer and Firefox have been losing market shares since January, and Google Chrome is picking up most of those customers.

Chrome has already surpassed Firefox in the UK, and its energy appears to be increasing on a global scale. Since January, Google Chrome has gained eight percentage points in worldwide market shares, a growth of 50 percent in total shares. Analysts expect Chrome to continue growing at this quick pace.
Chrome’s September global share reported in last Wednesday at 23.6% with Firefox close by at 26.8%. Internet Explorer checked in at 41.7%. Google Chrome will need to continue its current rate of growth to overtake Firefox by the end of December.
Net Applications, a US web metrics company, predicts a longer period of time for Chrome to reach the No.2 spot. They state that if the pace of Chrome’s growth continues, it will surpass Firefox by the middle of 2012.

Google Voice

Sheuli — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:55:12 +0000

The conflict between Google, Apple and AT&T about Google Voice remains unresolved, the app for calling service from Google is still not available on the iPhone. However, as it was announced few weeks ago by Vic Gundotra, Google brings Google Voice to the iPhone “one way or the other!”

Mr. Paquet , senior product manager for Google Voice said that the mobile Web version of Google Voice for the iPhone (which works indeed for any other mobile Web browser that understands HTML5) was not meant as a slap to Apple and AT&T, but as “a way to make sure that people who have been asking to use Google Voice on the iPhone have a way to do so,” he said.

You can access a Web version of the Google Voice on your cell phone at m.google.com/voice.

IE6’s Decline Celebrated by One and All

Sheuli — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:29:38 +0000

Seemingly everyone, including web developers, designers and users, are hailing the decline of Internet Explorer 6 ? and that includes Microsoft, the company that released it over 10 years ago.

At the website Microsoft launched recently to track the browser’s use, or lack of, the company wrote: “This website is dedicated to watching Internet Explorer 6 usage drop to less than 1% worldwide, so more websites can choose to drop support for Internet Explorer 6, saving hours of work for web developers.”

IE6 is still being used quite a bit in China, perhaps as the result of piracy, according to Download Squad’s Sebastian Anthony. According to Anthony, “China is notorious for its number of pirate Windows installs.” And, the outdated browser is still used by some employers as a form of internet control ? websites like Facebook and YouTube are not accessible using IE6.

Chrome’s second anniversary

Sheuli — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:51:43 +0000

Chrome’s first beta launch for Windows took place two years ago. As Google Blog inform – in August 2008, JavaScript was 10 times slower, HTML5 support wasn?t yet an essential feature in browsers, and the idea of a sandboxed, multi-process browser was only a research project. Chrome just like all browsers have come a long way in the last two years and the web has become much more fun and useful.

Firefox 4 Beta 1

Sheuli — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:23:34 +0000

Firefox 4 Beta 1 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux is available to download. This version even if still under beta testing is mostly stable enough for regular use. The biggest improvements between Firefox 3 the newest one is speed.

Firefox 4 supports also CSS 3 and HTML5, it has also better protection against buggy plugins which crash the browser. The company plans to release a new beta version of the browser every two weeks. According to the newest data about Browser Market Share Firefox is the second (after IE) most popular browser on the market.

Use of IE6 drops, Chrome rises

Sheuli — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:20:08 +0000

Internet Explorer 6 has dropped to less than 5% browser market share in the US. Chrome, Google’s browser share grew last month.

To learn more visit the newest reports about Search Engine Market Share and Browser Market Share.

Google Chrome 5

Sheuli — Sat, 29 May 2010 18:33:23 +0000

Google Chrome 5 for Windows users is just a minor update, the big news is Chrome 5 is finally available for Mac OS X and Linux.

Firefox is Coming to the iPhone

Sheuli — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:10:11 +0000

Firefox team has been working on an application for the iPhone. The app is called Firefox Home.

Firefox Home gives iPhone users access to their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks and the set of tabs from their most recent browser session. There is also a bar that enables users to get to their favorite web sites with minimal typing. An application is almost ready.

New feature for Gmail – drag images into emails

Sheuli — Wed, 12 May 2010 23:29:56 +0000

Google launched a new feature for Gmail that allows you to drag images from a computer into a message. You simply drag the image in, resize it, and send an email. Currently, the feature only works in one browser – Google Chrome, a support for other browsers will come soon.