Google thinks that the world needs another web browser. Last Tuesday Google released its own web browser in order to challange Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as well as the Firefox browser. According to Net Applications, a research company, Microsoft still holds 73 % of the browser market, followed by Firefox with 19 %, while Apple’s Safari has 6 %.

A browser is the universal doorway to the internet. As the internet entered the mobile devices market (e.g. on Apple's iPhone), Google cannot accept that Microsoft does have more or less a monopoly with its Internet Explorer. That is why Google now just started a direct challange with Microsoft. It is also well known that Google makes a lot of money with adverts which are displayed whenever someone starts a Google Search. As every search is done via a web browser Google has a high interest in controlling this tool.

read more: New York Times