Google builds a better browser

Stuart Corner
Wednesday, 03 September 2008 13:30

Business IT - Networking

Google has unveiled its own web browser, dubbed 'Chrome' and with numerous innovations.

The initial beta product is available in 122 countries and 40 languages but for Window (XP and Vista). Google says Mac and Linux versions are now high priority but these are still months away. However Google's vice president product development, Sundar Pichai, said that, with the launch of the Windows beta, development resources had been redeployed to accelerate the Mac and Linux versions.

Chrome is completely open source and Google says it will remain that way. Its rationale being that, because every one of Google's services is delivered through a browser it is in its interest to engender competition and innovation in the browser market to ensure users' experience of Google services is optimal.

In a statement, Google said [the source code] is available under the name Chromium and anyone can use the browser's source code in their own projects - even if building a complete browser."

Pichai, who has overseen the development of Chrome, told a Sydney press conference, by video link from Google HQ in California, that the company would develop an application programme interface for Chrome "as soon as we can."

At the briefing, Rohit Dhawan, head of product for Google Australia stressed the key innovations in Chrome as being the way it uses tabs the single box for search and navigation, the speed of navigation, the stability and security of the product and the way it uses history.

Chrome combines search and navigation in the same box. Enter any word and it will submit that as a search term to whatever search engine has been set as the default (and Google stresses that there is no bias towards Google search in the set up) returning both search results and matching web addresses. So any search term preceded by www will return web addresses.
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