{"id":951,"date":"2008-10-06T07:43:30","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T06:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/951-google-chrome-usage-one-month-on.html"},"modified":"2008-10-06T07:43:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T06:43:30","slug":"google-chrome-usage-one-month-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/951-google-chrome-usage-one-month-on.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome usage one month on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Om Malik <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2008\/10\/04\/google-chrome-one-month-later\/\">asks about Chrome usage<\/a>, one month after its release.<\/p>\n<p>On this site this month (only a few days in) Chrome has a 2.5% share, below Opera at 3.2%. Malik reports 5.59%; commenters to his post have figures as small as 0.36% up to something approaching Malik\u2019s figure \u2013 his seems to be about the maximum.<\/p>\n<p>Small, but even say 2.5% is not that bad for a new, beta web browser. I use it myself some of the time; I like the speed and clean UI.<\/p>\n<p>That said, Chrome usage has declined, after the initial surge of people trying it out. The share now is more meaningful; it will be fascinating to watch its progress. The challenge for Google is to get a buzz going; surely a web browser is a perfect candidate for Web 2.0 marketing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:60dc2075-c66d-4b70-b8fd-5f67c1d4ea7a\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/google\" rel=\"tag\">google<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/chrome\" rel=\"tag\">chrome<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/browsers\" rel=\"tag\">browsers<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Om Malik asks about Chrome usage, one month after its release. On this site this month (only a few days in) Chrome has a 2.5% share, below Opera at 3.2%. Malik reports 5.59%; commenters to his post have figures as small as 0.36% up to something approaching Malik\u2019s figure \u2013 his seems to be about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/951-google-chrome-usage-one-month-on.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google Chrome usage one month on<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,74,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-search","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}