Google Chrome: A New Take on the Browser

New Open Source Browser Combines Simple User-Interface with
Sophisticated Technology
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) today launched Google Chrome(TM), a new
open source browser intended to create a better web experience for
users around the world. Available in beta in more than 40 languages,
Google Chrome is a new approach to the browser that's based on the
simplicity and power that users have come to expect from Google
products.

In the early days of the Internet, web pages were frequently
little more than text. But today the web has evolved into a powerful
platform that enables users to collaborate with friends and colleagues
through email and other web applications, edit documents, watch
videos, listen to music, manage finances and much more. Google
Chrome was built for today's web and for the applications of tomorrow.

"We think of the browser as the window to the web - it's a tool
for users to interact with the web sites and applications they care
about, and it's important that we don't get in the way of that
experience," said Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Product
Management, Google Inc. "Just like the classic Google homepage, Google
Chrome has a simple user interface with a sophisticated core to enable
the modern web."

Making the web experience better for users

Google Chrome was designed to make it easy for users to search and
navigate the web for the content they're looking for.

-- A combined search and address bar quickly takes users where
they want to go, often in just a few keystrokes.

-- When users open a new tab in Google Chrome, they'll see a page
that includes snapshots of their most-visited sites, recent
searches and bookmarks, making it even easier to navigate the
web.

Google Chrome was engineered to deliver a seamless web experience
for users. At its core is a multi-process platform that helps
provide users with enhanced stability and security.

-- Each browser tab operates as a separate process; by isolating
tabs, should one tab crash or misbehave, others remain stable
and responsive, and users can continue working without having
to restart Google Chrome.

-- Google also built a new JavaScript engine, V8, which not only
speeds up today's web applications, but enables a whole new
class of web applications that couldn't exist on today's
browsers.

Contributing to the innovation of browsers through openness

"While we see this as a fundamental shift in the way people think
about browsers, we realize that we couldn't have created Google Chrome
on our own," said Linus Upson, Director of Engineering, Google Inc.
"Google Chrome was built upon other open source projects that are
making significant contributions to browser technology and have helped
to spur competition and innovation."

To further advance the openness of the web, Google Chrome is being
released as an open source project under the name Chromium. The intent
is that Google will help make future browsers better by contributing
the underlying technology in Google Chrome to the market, while
continuing to develop additional features.

How to get Google Chrome

Google Chrome can be downloaded at www.google.com/chrome. It is
being released in beta for Windows in over 100 countries in the
following languages: Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified),
Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese
(Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin
America), Turkish, English (US), English (UK), Arabic, Czech, Danish,
Hebrew, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Indonesian, Ukrainian,
Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Filipino, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian,
Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Thai,
Vietnamese, and Estonian.

Google Chrome for Mac and Linux users will be available in the
coming months. For more information on the open source project,
Chromium, visit www.chromium.org.

EDITOR'S NOTE: For screen shots or b-roll, visit
www.google.com/chrome/press.

About Google Inc.

Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people
around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by
Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a
top Web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted
advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable
results, while enhancing the overall Web experience for users. Google
is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the
Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.

Google and Google Chrome are a trademark of Google Inc. All other
company and product names may be trademarks of the respective
companies with which they are associated.

Google Inc.
Erin Fors, 650-930-3555
press@google.com

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