Those days are gone and now its time for Google to use its own services to promote Google Chrome and they have started to do that very well.

Google has started to use the huge base of Orkut so as to increase the number of Google Chrome users. See the image above? They have found a cool way to suggest orkut users to download Google Chrome.

You seen any other place where Google is promoting Chrome?

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What do you think I am trying to point out when I was citing the examples above? If you haven’t guessed it then I was trying to communicate how every Google product which actually receives huge Google backing is somehow related to making money. Although Google’s policy is to work on the product and then search for money making ways but if that product doesn’t looks like it will bring money then it backs off from supporting the product.

So, what benefits will Google Chrome bring in for Google? No monetary benefits as they will be handling millions of downloads and constantly working on the browser to keep it bug free but their are some indirect benefits which will surely keep pinching Google to constantly improve Google Chrome. Some of those benefits could be:

• Most of the people will make Google Search as their default search engine and this will help increase Google’s Searching user base. But isn’t Firefox also giving Google as default search engine? then, in this case it will be Microsoft’s Internet Explorer which will feel the heat.
• Although you won’t be able to install Google Toolbar with Google Chrome but most of the features of Google Toolbar can be incorporated with Google Chrome without hassles. Hence, it helps Google expand the base that uses its toolbar.
• Google loves to gather users searching data and Google Chrome is quick to send to Google what we search along with our IP address. Google Chrome will add more juice to Google’s database which is enough to reveal what I search daily using Google. Darn!
• PageRank! Some say it is dead and some say it isn’t. Well, after Google Chrome it might get little easier for Google to increase the importance of PageRank as they will be able to gather data quickly. Just a guess..

Lastly, Google Chrome helps Google take another step towards being the only company which will rule the Internet in the time to come.

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In a nutshell, if Google is your default search engine in Google Chrome (which is mostly the case) then whatever you type in the address bar will be stored in Google’s servers along with your IP address.

If you think that Google didn’t inform you about this then I will request you to read what this short and sweet line in the End User License Agreement (EULA).

“By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.”

Shocked? Even I was but this what the hidden meaning of Don’t Do Evil for Google.

If you don’t want Google to store what you are searching for but still you want to continue with Google Chrome then either you can switch to Google Chrome’s Incognito mode (which hides your online presence) or else turn-off the auto suggest feature of Google Chrome. You can even stop using Google Search and move to Yahoo! search or Live Search but I guess these aren’t worth trying when compared to Google.

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Everyone said that this revolutionary feature of Google Chrome was unique when compared to the other competitive brothers and sisters. No, its not!

Google chrome is said to be fighting (and curbing down) Internet Explorer 8 but somehow they have copied the independent tabs feature from IE 8 itself. The process model of IE8 is given below.

For automatic crash recovery IE8 implements the tab isolation feature and Microsoft website describes the tab isolation feature as:

If a website or add-on causes a tab to crash in Internet Explorer 8, only that tab is affected. The browser itself remains stable and other tabs remain unaffected, thereby minimizing any disruption to your browsing experience.

And you thought you were experiencing something revolutionary?

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From now on you can always check the second sidebar which has the image that will link to all the latest chrome tricks that I will publish.

Gear Up! It’s chroming time.

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This is what Mike Schaffner had to say in his article for Forbes.  As per Mike Google Chrome might have many unique features which others don’t but it is hard to believe that IE will be totally kicked out of the market.

The only advantage which IE seems to have is that it has become a very old browser in the industry and it has become hard for huge organizations to actually give up the use of IE and implement some other third party browser in all their systems.

For the general public too their could be some downsides like those who love to play games in MSN will have to face this warning in Google Chrome.

“Important Note: Your browser or operating system does not meet the minimum requirements to play on MSN Games. You may be able to download games for offline play; however, the online games can be played only with Internet Explorer version 6 or later, and Windows 2000 or later.”

It is clear that various blogs might be chattering about Google Chrome and it might have hit 2 million downloads in first two weeks but life isn’t going to be that easy for this new browser. Tough road ahead Mr. Chrome.

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