Chrome, the brand new web browser made by Google. It was released on 2nd September and created a huge buzz on the internet -  Results 1 - 10 of about 52,900,000 for google chrome. (0.22 seconds). Everyone is talking about it, either in a good or a bad way. Some love it, some hate it, i personally just don’t like it and i’m sticking with firefox.

Chrome and the Copyright issue

Google got pretty much burned because of their EULA which they later modified when seeing that people don’t enjoy Google not respecting copyrights. Users who downloaded chrome in the first days before downloading agreed that they grant Google the right to

“perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly, perform, publicly display and distribute” anything Chrome users typed  on a web page while using the browser.

and allowed Google to share information with

“other companies, organisations or individuals with whom Google has relationships“

This also created a huge buzz on the internet, and on DigitalPoint Forums also. Many people uninstalled/didn’t install Chrome after seeing what they agreed to.

Matt Cutts posted up a blog post on his blog( it’s not always good to be fast), in the first part he’s talking about “Google didn’t want to assert rights on what people did using Google Chrome” , but the end part which he wrote after coming back from the meeting is much more fun:

“But it was clearly a mistake on Google’s part to include that language when it shouldn’t have been there, and I should have been grateful to the people that pointed it out. Instead of getting snippy with people, my reaction should have been more along the lines of “Oh crap, I don’t think that’s intentional. Thank you so much for noticing that and pointing it out. I’ll see if we can get an official clarification or reaction as soon as possible.” I apologize for that, and I appreciate the people who push Google to be better.”

IMO it’s a pretty lame excuse, but what the heck?, it gets the problem solved.

Yeah, Google noticed that the 11 and the 11.1 section of their eula needs to be modified, otherwise Chrome won’t have such a bright future as they expect it to have.

So they simply modified the 11 and the 11.1 section to:

11. Content license from you

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.

Also they included in the 9.4 section:

9.4 Other than the limited license set forth in Section 11, Google acknowledges and agrees that it obtains no right, title or interest from you (or your licensors) under these Terms in or to any Content that you submit, post, transmit or display on, or through, the Services, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in that Content (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist). Unless you have agreed otherwise in writing with Google, you agree that you are responsible for protecting and enforcing those rights and that Google has no obligation to do so on your behalf.

And this closes the copyright issue with Google Chrome.

User Opinions

Moving on to more happier things: i wanted to make this blog post yesterday, but after reading 634 posts in The Google Chrome thread over at DP i felt the huge eager to go and play some dotA and cool down a little,lol.

So basically yesterday I made 5 sections and counted the opinions that fit a section, after which i created a cool chart for you guys(and the guys @ dp):

(Click Image to enlarge Chart)

As you can see 32,37% of those who expressed their opinions think that Chrome Rocks!, but 35,25% think that their current default browser is better than Chrome and will stick with it.

While 10,79% think that Chrome will dethrone Internet Explorer, 17,27% think that Chrome has no chance against FF/IE.

The remaining 4.32% think that users who use Chrome will help Google make  SERP results more accurate.

User Reviews

User reviews vary so much, that i could make a 100 page post just containing people’s opinions, that’s why i’ll summarize:

Many people love the speed and simplicity of Chrome, and they would switch to it if it would have cool addons like Firefox.

Some people enjoy the icognito mode so much that they’ll switch to Chrome just because of it( you p0rnlovers! :D).

An other group of people are scared to use Chrome ebcause of the exploits that were posted on the internet.

The rest of the people have varied thoughts that can’t be included in any of the categories specified above.

Chrome Comic

As many of you know Google released a comic book before launching Chrome.

The Register made a cool post titled Google’s comic capers: what they really meant to say with user submitted(modified) comicbook scenes.

Go ahead, check out the rest of the comics, you’ll have a good laugh!

Browser Usage Stats

About 9 days ago the guys at Statcounter posted up the Browser usage stats for Global/US/UK. Their stats included: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Other browsers. They put the stats in tables, which look pretty dull, so i made a cool visual chart which is more fun and easier to interpret(Contains Internet explorer, Firefox and Chrome). Data is expressed in %.

(Click Image to view full stats over at StatCounter)

This about wraps it up for now, if updates will pop up i’ll make a new blog post with updated data and info