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Google Chrome's Market Share Dropping Hard and Fast

by Terrence O'Brien on September 12, 2008 at 01:26 PM

Google Chrome Market Share Dropping Off AlreadyGoogle Chrome busted out of the gate last week and was the talk of the town. But one week later, the browser phenomena from the world's leader in search is already starting to fade.

In the days following the launch of Chrome, the browser had claimed a larger chunk of the browser market share than Opera or Safari. Though it couldn't touch larger competitors like Firefox or Internet Explorer, it still made an incredibly impressive showing, especially for such a new product. By some measures, Chrome's market share has dropped by over a third.

According to Net Applications, a tracking service, Chrome dropped from a daily high of 1.7-percent of the market last week to a daily high of 1 percent this week.

The drop off isn't a complete surprise: Many rushed out to try the new product, but went back to their browsers of choice after giving Chrome -- which is still a work in progress and plenty buggy -- a spin. The question for Google now is whether is can continue to improve Chrome enough to win over more users. [From: Silicon Alley Insider]

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