Browser Statistics Month by Month
| 2008 | IE7 | IE6 | Chrome | Fx | Moz | S | O |
| November | 26.6% | 20.0% | 3.1% | 44.2% | 0.4% | 2.7% | 2.3% |
| October | 26.9% | 20.2% | 3.0% | 44.0% | 0.4% | 2.8% | 2.2% |
| September | 26.3% | 22.3% | 3.1% | 42.6% | 0.5% | 2.7% | 2.0% |
Source: w3school
A new wonderful feature in Gmail. Now you can also have video chat! Great! 
| 2008 | IE7 | IE6 | Chrome | Fx | Moz | S | O |
| October | 26.9% | 20.2% | 3.0% | 44.0% | 0.4% | 2.8% | 2.2% |
| September | 26.3% | 22.3% | 3.1% | 42.6% | 0.5% | 2.7% | 2.0% |
Two months are already gone since the launch of Google Chrome. Its market share still around 3% (source: w3school accessed on the 6th of November 2008). From the data available, we can see how IE still losing market share. Users who leave IE6 (-2.1%) are more than the ones who move on IE7 (+0.6%). The winner in this battle still Firefox that gained 1.4% of the market share.
One of the reasons why Google Chrome’s market share isn’t increased yet it is probably because of the missing google toolbar. Many users still complaining about this problem and most of them said they won’t use Google Chrome until the Google toolbar is available.
Ciao
Image of Google Book Search Beta courtesy of Google.
Copyright Accord Would Make Millions More Books Available Online.
NEW YORK, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), and Google today announced a groundbreaking settlement agreement on behalf of a broad class of authors and publishers worldwide that would expand online access to millions of in-copyright books and other written materials in the U.S. from the
collections of a number of major U.S. libraries participating in Google Book Search. The agreement, reached after two years of negotiations, would resolve a class-action lawsuit brought by book authors and the Authors Guild, as well as a separate lawsuit filed by five large publishers as representatives of the AAP’s membership. The class action is subject to approval by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The agreement promises to benefit readers and researchers, and enhance the ability of authors and publishers to distribute their content in digital form, by significantly expanding online access to works through Google Book Search, an ambitious effort to make millions of books
searchable via the Web. The agreement acknowledges the rights and interests of copyright owners, provides an efficient means for them to control how their intellectual property is accessed online and enables them to receive compensation for online access to their works.If approved by the court, the agreement would provide:
- – More Access to Out-of-Print Books — Generating greater exposure for millions of in-copyright works, including hard-to-find out-of-print books, by enabling readers in the U.S. to search these works and preview them online;
- – Additional Ways to Purchase Copyrighted Books — Building off publishers’ and authors’ current efforts and further expanding the electronic market for copyrighted books in the U.S., by offering users the ability to purchase online access to many in-copyright books;
- – Institutional Subscriptions to Millions of Books Online — Offering a means for U.S. colleges, universities and other organizations to obtain subscriptions for online access to collections from some of the world’s most renowned libraries;
- – Free Access From U.S. Libraries — Providing free, full-text, online viewing of millions of out-of-print books at designated computers in U.S. public and university libraries; and
- – Compensation to Authors and Publishers and Control Over Access to Their Works — Distributing payments earned from online access provided by Google and, prospectively, from similar programs that may be established by other providers, through a newly created independent, not-for-profit Book Rights Registry that will also locate rightsholders, collect and maintain accurate rightsholder information, and provide a way for rightsholders to request inclusion in or exclusion from the project.
Under the agreement, Google will make payments totaling $125 million.
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Sergey Brin, co-founder & president of technology at Google said:
“Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Today, together with the authors, publishers, and libraries, we have been able to make a great leap in this endeavor. While this agreement is a real win-win for all of us, the real victors are all the readers. The tremendous wealth of knowledge that lies within the books of the world will now be at their fingertips.”
For more information about this agreement, including information about whether you may be a class member, please visit http://books.google.com/booksrightsholders. Class members include authors (the Author Sub-Class) and publishers (the Publisher Sub-Class), and their
heirs and successors, of books and other written works protected by U.S. copyright law.
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Interesting links:
Full article available here: http://www.prnewswire.com
Eric Schmidt speaks at Bloomberg Headquarters on October 20, 2008 in New York City about the future of technology.
Today I was surfing the internet and found a very interesting project/utility… once again from GOOGLE! The project’s name is:
The UK Carbon Footprint project .
“Google aims to help people find information that matters to them quickly and easily. Through the UK Carbon Footprint Project we make information on calculating and reducing your carbon footprint, as well as information on climate change in the UK, easily accessible to everyone.
The project enables you to calculate your carbon footprint, choose personalised carbon-reducing actions and compare your footprint and actions to those of others around the country by placing yourself on the Google UK Carbon Footprint Map.”
Here the summary of my report (which one is your?):
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Click here for an updated map.
Ciao
(images courtesy of Jon and google) - On the 16th of October 2008, Queen Elizabeth II visited Google’s UK Headquarters in London.
Queen Elizabeth II was the first Sovereign to send an email, and now Queen Elizabeth II is the first Queen to visit Google’s UK Headquarters in London.
Google celebrated the queen’s visit by creating a special version of its google.co.uk home page, which featured a silhouette of her head as the second “G” and a regal crown atop the “E” in their logo. This Logo is called Google Doodles and was designed by schoolchildren (here the article).
More articles here:
| 2008 | IE7 | IE6 | Chrome | Fx | Moz | S | O |
| September | 26.3% | 22.3% | 3.1% | 42.6% | 0.5% | 2.7% | 2.0% |
Google Chrome has been launched less than a month ago and has already reached 3.1% of the market share (source: w3school accessed on the 4th of October 2008).
If this trend continues (and probably it will), in few months Google Chrome will be the leader of the market! I bet on it!
Only a recommedation:
People still complaining about the missing google toolbar. Google Chrome is the best browser I have ever tried: fast, clear, and usable. But please Google Guys… the toolbar is absolutely needed. And I really hope you will come up with a wonderful original Google Chrome Toolbar… something like the one I hypothesized in one of my previous post: Google Chrome in the 3 most used browsers: how long will it take?
Or maybe something better, something that we human beings can’t neither imagine!
Ciao
| 2008 | IE7 | IE6 | IE5 | Fx | Moz | S | O |
| August | 26.0% | 24.5% | 0.1% | 43.7% | 0.5% | 2.6% | 2.1% |
| July | 26.4% | 25.3% | 0.3% | 42.6% | 0.5% | 2.5% | 1.9% |
| June | 27.0% | 26.5% | 0.5% | 41.0% | 0.5% | 2.6% | 1.7% |
| May | 26.5% | 27.3% | 0.7% | 39.8% | 0.7% | 2.4% | 1.5% |
| April | 24.9% | 28.9% | 1.0% | 39.1% | 0.9% | 2.2% | 1.4% |
| March | 23.3% | 29.5% | 1.1% | 37.0% | 1.1% | 2.1% | 1.4% |
| February | 22.7% | 30.7% | 1.3% | 36.5% | 1.2% | 2.0% | 1.4% |
| January | 21.2% | 32.0% | 1.5% | 36.4% | 1.3% | 1.9% | 1.4% |
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| IE | Internet Explorer |
| Fx | Firefox (identified as Mozilla before 2005) |
| Moz | The Mozilla Suite (Gecko, Netscape) |
| S | Safari (and Konqueror. Both identified as Mozilla before 2007) |
| O | Opera |
| N | Netscape (identified as Mozilla after 2006) |
| AOL | America Online (based on both Internet Explorer and Mozilla) |
Source: W3school (accessed on the 6th of Sept 2008)
And now is time to include Google Chrome as well! I am pretty sure Google Chrome is going to be the first of the class very soon! It is just great: very wide screen, clear, easy to use and very fast! The only negative point (and people are complaining about it) is the google toolbar! Unfortunately Google Chrome was released without Google Toolbar.
I guess GG (Google Guys) are doing a great job around the google toolbar for Google Chrome. I think of something like… fading effect (same effect than the property hover), with a non invasive Google Toolbar that appears and disappears when the mouse ‘hover‘ the Google Toolbar button, and a fading drop down menu (including page rank, translator button, autofill and so on) will gently appear.
This will be also a good additional point to immediately gain points over the competitors.
How long will Google Chrome need to be in the 3 most used browsers?
Ciao,
Marco
Hey guys, I haven’t had enough time yet to experience google chrome, but in my brief experience, I definitely say: it is just great!
Very quick, “USABLE”, and totally clear! A wonderful pleasant experience!
It seems to be a mix between Opera, Firefox with the additional magic potential of Google.
I will spend more time on it in the coming days…
Ciao!
