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...California The Browser Wars, Part II Search giant Google unveiled Chrome, a new Web browser designed to compete with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Still in the beta-test stage, Chrome sports some spiffy new features--bundled tabs, an address bar merged with a search box--but faces a tough fight from Explorer, which claims roughly 75% of the browser market...
...That feature, by the way, is also included in Microsoft's newest version of its popular browser, IE 8, which went into its second beta release last week...
...With a 72% share of the browser market, Microsoft is the real target here. Far from sinking into irrelevance, desktop computer browsers have continued to evolve and become even more integral to how we use the Web. Whoever controls that experience can leverage it to the detriment of website owners - and in ways that must keep the Google guys up at night. For instance, IE 8 makes it far easier to find something without going through a Google search. When you search within IE 8, you're presented with a number of buttons, such as Search Yahoo! or Search Wikipedia...
...shouldn't be a big surprise to anyone that Google's doing this," said John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, the world's second most popular browser. Noting the aggressive direction that Microsoft is taking, he added, "I think Google has some nervousness around issues of control and ownership...
SEINFELD signs on as Microsoft spokesman. Not that there's anything wrong with that...