Comments Jacobson, “[The terms and conditions] contain a content licence in terms of which Chrome's users license content they submit, post or display using Google's services to Google. Although Google understandably wants to avoid liability for copyright infringement or perhaps even trademark infringement, the license's requirements may be difficult, if not impossible, to enforce. They are certainly pretty onerous and perhaps even unreasonably so." For more, go to Jacobson's blog post.
Google Chrome was built for today's web and for the applications of tomorrow, with a view to simplicity and power. 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.
“We think of the browser as the window to the web - it's a tool for users to interact with the websites and applications they care about, and it's important that we don't get in the way of that experience," said Sundar Pichai, VP of product management, Google.
"Just like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome has a simple user interface with a sophisticated core to enable the modern 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.
To further advance the evolution of the web, Google Chrome is being released as an open-source project. 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.
"While we see this as a fundamental shift in the way people think about browsers, we realise that we couldn't have created Google Chrome on our own,” said Linus Upson, director of engineering, Google. “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.”
Google Chrome is now available in beta in 43 languages for Windows and can be downloaded at http://chrome.google.com. Google Chrome for Mac and Linux users will be available in the coming months. For more information on the open-source project, Chromium, go to www.chromium.org.
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