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Google Says Chrome Browser Now Has 30 Million Active Users

Source: TechCrunch

Nov 02, 2009

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There is a perception that Google’s Chrome is a rounding error when it comes to browsers. And maybe it still is, but Google is now fighting that perception in a very public way. Today, it announced that the Chrome Team won a Founder’s Award for their achievements so far, and for the first time revealed how many people are using the Chrome browser: 30 million active users.

Now, 30 million is certainly a big number, but it is still a tiny fraction of Internet Explorer or Firefox (which has 330 million users). NetApplications shows Chrome with only a 3.58 percent market share at the end of October, compared to 24 percent for Firefox and 65 percent for IE.

Nevertheless, Google is signaling with this award (which was previously won by teh teams which created Gmail, Google Maps, and AdSense) and this figure that it is dead serious about Chrome. Google generally doesn’t reveal user numbers for anything, so this is significant. And now it sets a precedent for Google to update the number in the future.

Will it grow, and how fast?

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