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Google Chrome runs quickly: already more than 3% of the market share

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Browser Statistics Month by Month

 

2008 IE7 IE6 Chrome Fx Moz S O
September 26.3% 22.3% 3.1% 42.6% 0.5% 2.7% 2.0%

 

Logo Google ChromeGoogle 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 :)

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Google Chrome in the 3 most used browsers: how long will it take?

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Browser Statistics Month by Month


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 ;)

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About Google Chrome

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

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! :)

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Already love Google Chrome :)

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

That’s amazing!!!

http://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/en-GB/welcome.html

Will write more later :)

Ciao!

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How web usability’s changed

Monday, May 26th, 2008

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(image courtesy of Will Lion) – Web users do not want to waste time surfing a website.

They just want to find (straight away) what they are looking for, and then complete the task as soon as possible and leave the website.

This is a pleasant experience for the user.

No wasting time.

They use search engines to find the information they are interested in.

Their goal is to get a “direct” link to what they want… they do not like travel via a homepage (indeed only 25% do it).

Shall we move from the traditional “web usability” to the seo and tailor made webpages for each single request coming from web users?

Better an integration usability/seo ?

E.g. If we sell pizza, is not enough (not anymore) telling people that we sell pizza. It Is not enough to build a nice “usable” interface to allow a rapid selection of pizza. We should build and optimize the whole website so that each single page contains information about just a single kind of pizza, location where we deliver it, facilities for payment, delivery time.


Then we should allow “very specific” links to our pages only from other “specific” pages about “that kind” of pizza. Then write our last recipe or our special offer about that pizza in a blog, setting special rss/atom feeds for “that kind of pizza” in order to allow our “user” to bookmark our “specific feeds”, and then digg it including a special title so that it will come up very easily in the results of a search engine.

Isn’t it happening already with the blogs?

Shall our “pizzeria” move from a website to a blog then?

Read the article in the BBC News Web users ‘getting more selfish’

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