Last week, Dan Frommer reported in Silicon Alley Insider that Google’s new web browser, Chrome had lost market share since its launch the week before.

While, according to NetApplications’ hourly browser tracking data, Chrome achieved 1 to 1.7 percent of browser usage during launch week, it was tracking at around 0.7 to 1 percent a week later.

A quick check reveals this still to be the case and that Chrome usage is still hovering around 1 percent of total browser usage (if NetApplications’ data is correct).

This isn’t really surprising since a lot of people (myself included) probably downloaded and tried Chrome out of curiosity rather than an intention to switch browsers. Whether Chrome can gain significant and sustainable market share over time… that will probably depend on how innovative (or not) both it and its major competition (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc) will continue to be.

Source: Dan Frommer, “Google’s Chrome Market Share Going Nowhere Fast”, Silicon Alley Insider, September 10, 2008, NetApplications

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