Google Introduces Chrome

Google has just introduced their new web browser called Chrome.

Google also is counting on Chrome to become the linchpin in its effort to distribute widely used computer programs like word processing, spreadsheets and calendars through the Web browser instead of as applications installed on individual machines. If the crusade is successful, it might undercut Microsoft's profits by diminishing sales of its Office suite.

I was reading a bit about it in their Webcomic for Chrome and it seems like a pretty superior browsing experience.  Chrome runs each tab seperately so you won't get a Javascript error that kills all 7 of the tabs that you had open at the same time.  I have been using Firefox recently because it allows you to recover from a browser crash by saving what you had open at the time of the crash.  Chrome just lets you kill the tab without having to restart your browser. I'll download it and playtest it for a few days and see how it goes.

Google Beat the Street Again

They sure seem to be hitting on all cylinders now. I think this may be one of the more important metrics that you should be looking out for:

Figures released last week by another Internet metrics company,
Hitwise, showed Google gaining search market share and its competitors
declining. According to numbers provided by Hitwise, Google accounted for 64
percent of all U.S. in March 2007, up from 58% in March 2006. Yahoo Search, MSN Search and Ask accounted for 22% (-1 percentage point), 9% (-4 percentage points) and 3% (-0.5 percentage points) respectively.

That gain in market share is huge because it looks like Yahoo stumbled badly missing their numbers and it might be getting worse in the future. One thing I have been noticing is that Yahoo seems to be back to a point when they have to self advertise again. Before they released Panama almost every ad on their site was a Yahoo ad. Then when Panama was first released you started to notice car companies and other stuff taking the place of the Yahoo ads. Now it seems to be back to the pre-Panama days with tons of Yahoo ads again.

Couple this with the fact that you are now paying 38 times earnings for just 7% revenue growth and -11% income growth. Compare this with Google where you are paying 48 times earnings for 66% revenue growth and 69% income growth. There just isn't any comparison in the search space. Google is the winner and with that Doubleclick merger they will be crowned the "Internet Adking."