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Google Inc., owner of the most popular search engine on the Internet, posted its biggest gain in four months on the Nasdaq after the introduction of a browser to challenge Microsoft's decade long dominance of the market. The program, known as Chrome, will isolate faults Web pages so users can close without closing the browser whole, and will be easier to run other applications without downloading to a computer, Google said.
The program opens a new front in the fight between Google and Microsoft Internet Explorer controls more than 70 / of the browser market. Google tries to build on its success over Microsoft in online searches in an effort to court users want E-mail, calendars and word processing through a browser instead of such products as Microsoft Word and Excel.
"They are watching the overall picture of their business," said David Smith, a Gartner analyst in Bedford, New Hampshire. They look at the speed to which the browser development is underway and they are trying to accelerate this process. "Google is facing an uphill battle against Internet Explorer, which has led the browser market since it passed Netscape Communications Navigator in 1999, because Microsoft's program are pre-installed on personal computers. Make Internet Explorer in the market for Web browsing is followed by Mozilla's Firefox Corp. with 20 / and Apple's Safari with 6.4 /, according to research firm Net Applications Aliso Viejo, California.
A loss of browser users Google could limit Microsoft's ability to attract people to its search engine, the default option for Web queries on Internet Explorer. Microsoft software world's largest, has launched a new version of Explorer last week for testing. The software allows users to control if you save the sites you have visited and can keep websites from tracking user activity.
"The browser landscape is very competitive, "said Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer, in a statement." People will choose Internet Explorer 8 for the way that puts the services they want right at your fingertips, respects their personal choices about how they want to go, and more than any other browsing technology, puts them in control of their personal data online. "
Google is the default search engine Research on Firefox, Safari and Opera Software ASA Opera, browsers representing approximately 27 / from the mobile phone market. Chrome address bar May also help Google attract users. It has a dual function, allowing people to type in the website location and offer suggestions for research Google. That can help prevent people from going to Microsoft or Yahoo to your queries Internet, Smith, Gartner said.
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