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Google Chrome 30 months later

Two and a half years ago Google launched Chrome, little by little I have been observing how visitors to this site leave other browsers and switch to this one, while Internet Explorer users download hand in hand with the invasion of mobile communication. With Chrome we have learned to do things differently, at least at the desktop level; we have also noticed substantial changes with safari, especially since   30 makes navigation months from smartphones was not a fashion like today, nor the obsessive dependence on social networks.

I've been using Chrome since was released, initially to test that it worked but I never went back to download a beta of Firefox and its endless extensions, although strange that the speed was always higher. I have Safari next to me, just in case the intranet gets slow, its interface is similar but you can tell the difference when I attach files in Gmail and I suppose Mac users feel the same as both browsers are adapted to their products.

For comparison purposes in the Spanish-speaking medium, let's take a quick look at statistics on an approximate sample of 30,000 visitors between January and March of the year 2008, three months before it was released Chrome; and a similar amount between February and March of 2011.

Before it came Chrome

Between Internet Explorer and Firefox 97% of the visitors of the webb were shared. Opera stagnant and Safari barely for the small group of Mac users.

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How it is now

Look at how the 23% that Chrome now has reached it by removing 8,392 users from Internet Explorer; It may seem simple, but it represents a loss of 39% in just two and a half years. The achievement of Firefox is not in its substantial growth, but its sustainability, since it surely also lost users who left for Chrome; Despite this, it achieved 945 users who also had to exit Internet Explorer and that represents a 12% growth.

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It is clear that the big loser is Internet Explorer, which falls almost in half, which is not exactly representative of the disuse of Windows operating systems. It is more a trend of browsing behavior, hence Safari recovers 2% of nothing, due to the demand that now exists for mobile browsing where browsing dominates thanks to the success of the Ipad and Iphone products.

See that Opera remains almost the same, with the variant that now its mini browser is represented by the demand of mobile users, including those who urge Flash. The rest of the queue is not even 1%.

As for operating systems, Windows has gone down from 97.55% to 95.03%, in this you can see a growth of Mac that now surpasses Linux and then the whole range of mobile browsers.

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What to expect

image Definitely, Chrome has come to change the way browsers operated, since the end of Google goes beyond that. The intention of taking it to be an online operating system every day materializes with the arrival of mobile devices that confirm the trend.

I leave you a graph of Woopra the pages viewed in Geofumadas the last three weeks to draw their own conclusions.

Google Chrome has no versions, it updates itself, every moment. Hence, it is barely 10 points from the version preferred by the faithful of Internet Explorer from which we see scattered users using even Explorer 5. It also surpasses the users of Explorer 3, which remains the most used although there is around a cave user using Firefox 1.

That makes the image speak out loud: Chrome is one, in a long list of 19 different flavors, among which 5 are Firefox, 5 Explorer, 5 Safari.

Google has used its strategy of automatic update on a single version well, so that users are not wondering whether to download the new version or switch to Firefox. Although the greatness of this platform is not yet seen, it is visualized after Google begins to promote applications, its task manager, transition of all Google Apps to a new platform, Chrome web store and its mobile version that rips through there.

It's funny is that everything that has been implemented in Chrome got there and we hardly ever notice. We notice it when we see a new option, and the way in which the way of browsing has changed, we recognize it when we must use the previous browser on a foreign machine.

Here it is can download Google Chrome.

Golgi Alvarez

Writer, researcher, specialist in Land Management Models. He has participated in the conceptualization and implementation of models such as: National Property Administration System SINAP in Honduras, Management Model of Joint Municipalities in Honduras, Integrated Cadastre-Registry Management Model in Nicaragua, Territory Administration System SAT in Colombia . Editor of the Geofumadas knowledge blog since 2007 and creator of the AulaGEO Academy that includes more than 100 courses on GIS - CAD - BIM - Digital Twins topics.

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