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Google Chrome takes share from every browser, except Apple’s Safari

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 08:34 AM EST

"Two weeks after the launch of Chrome, Google Inc.'s browser has stolen market share from every competitor except Apple Inc.'s Safari," Gregg Keizer reports for Computerworld.

"At the end of its second week, Chrome accounted for 0.85% of the browsers that visited the 40,000 sites monitored by Net Applications Inc., an increase from the 0.67% the week before," Keizer reports.

"Chrome's share came at the expense of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer, Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox, Opera Software ASA's Opera and even AOL LLC's Netscape, all of which have watched their browser share drop in the past two weeks. Only Safari escaped Chrome's impact; Apple's browser, in fact, has gained nearly 0.7 percentage points during the past 14 days," Keizer reports.

"Vince Vizzaccaro, Net Applications' executive vice president of marketing, has an idea why. '[Chrome] isn't available on Mac OS X yet,' he said... And Chrome's numbers may be soft, Vizzaccaro added, noting that Net Applications' newest data pegged the browser's trend line as slightly downward."

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Sep 17, 08 - 07:51 am Comment from: ron

"Vince Vizzaccaro, Net Applications' executive vice president of marketing, has an idea why. '[Chrome] isn't available on Mac OS X yet,' he said...

Duh! Go to the top of the class Vince.

Sep 17, 08 - 08:21 am Comment from: Sixvodkas

A Webkit by any other name would smell as sweet.

Sep 17, 08 - 08:27 am Comment from: the steen_machine

Vince sure has a gift for the obvious.

(Plain, stupid article)

Sep 17, 08 - 08:35 am Comment from: Captain Obvious here

and how is Camino doing... its mac only also.

Sep 17, 08 - 08:37 am Comment from: twilightmoon

Webkit is based on Konqueror, an open source browser that started on *nix.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit

Both Apple Safari and Google Chrome use Webkit, so the difference is only in the interface.

Sep 17, 08 - 08:49 am Comment from: Barry

Since there is Safari for Windows, which has a consistent if small presence amongst browsers, I don't see it it irrelevant to point out that Safari is still growing after the release of Chrome. A breakdown between native Safari and Safari for Windows would be handy here. An unofficial version of Chrome for OSX and Linux has just appeared. http://www.codeweavers.com/services/ports/chromium/
I don't recommend it, it still looks like a Windows application (eww) and crashes very quickly, but if the developers can make it any more stable it might provide competition to the native version of Safari before the official Chrome for OSX appears.

Sep 17, 08 - 09:38 am Comment from: qka

From 0.67% to 0.85%? A whole whopping 0.18% growth?

That could be sampling error. While I am awaiting Chrome on the Mac to give it a spin, we will have to wait and see if that 0.18% growth actually grows into something significant.

Sep 17, 08 - 10:29 am Comment from: Spark

@twighlightmoon

To be honest, the difference in Chrome goes WAY beyond interface. Webkit is used for rendering and such, but Chrome is more than "web browser", it is designed to be application environment. Take a look at there comic book if you haven't. I don't know what Chrome will ultimately mean to any of us, but it is a bold attempt to provide space for more advance cloud computing.

Sep 17, 08 - 10:54 am Comment from: ffolks

"Google Chrome takes share from every browser, except Apple’s Safari"

Thats only because it doesn't have an import option for safari's bookmarks.

Sep 17, 08 - 11:21 am Comment from: Renegade6

@ qka...it's a 0.18 growth in share - in raw numbers, but a 27% increase in it's previous market share of 0.67

Sep 17, 08 - 11:49 am Comment from: jaryi

hmmm.... I wonder why... Chrome isn't for mac yet... what a story.

Sep 17, 08 - 09:45 pm Comment from: 40 thousand sites is very small

400 thousand sites would be a better measure

Sep 18, 08 - 06:01 am Comment from: Martin

STUPID JOURNALIST !

maybe Chrome would take market share if it ran on mac os !

jesus, sometimes u would do better not posting.

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