Google Chrome
Google Chrome
Compiled by Devika Chhibber

Google says Chrome is faster, more secure and easier to use than any other Web browser, especially Microsoft`s Internet Explorer. So, let`s say you`ve been driving around in the same old Chevy for years. It gets OK gas mileage, but it`s not that fast. Now, someone has come out with a sleek hybrid that gets great mileage and is agile on the road. That`s how I can best describe Google Chrome.

Other browsers would immediately freeze up every open tab, but in Google`s browser each tab acts like it has its own engine. If one Web application is consuming a lot of your computer`s resources, the rest of the apps can still act very responsively.

No matter how fast or how much simpler Google`s Chrome may be, however, it is still going to have a hard time grabbing market from Microsoft`s Internet Explorer, which has around 70 percent of people online and comes pre-installed on most PCs.

Google might be able to steer people to its browser by getting them there through its popular search engine.
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