Launching WhatBrowser.org–Google Defines What a Browser is
There are always many people who hold the idea that Google doesn’t know what a Web browser is. But today, Google launched a website called WhatBrowser.org, which defines what a Web browser is and lets users download the applications that let us surf the Web.
When you visit the site, it will divine whether you’re using Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Opera or, of course, Google Chrome. WhatBrowser.org will also offer links to browser diagnostic tests and tips to change your browser home page, search engine and default browser, which may be helpful to some newbies on web browsers.
“Lots of our time each day is spent online, and every page on the Web is experienced through the browser,” Google marketing manager Jason Toff wrote in this blog post. “Unfortunately, most people don’t realize that there are many browsers out there, which differ on features like speed, security and extensibility.”
This seems like the kind of Website Microsoft could have developed more than a decade ago to promote IE, if only Microsoft had been serious enough about the Web to consider it.
Leave it to the Web-centric company to create this. Still, I’m surprised Google didn’t launch to better market its own Chrome web browser in September 2008. Why did Google launch suan a website? Perhaps what they want is just to gain more market share for Chrome browser.
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