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Google's goals for its new Chrome Web browser are simple: Make the Web experience faster and, by extension, make more money for Google. Google's Chrome browser is now officially available as a beta, offering the promise of increased speed, security and usability. During a conference call and Webcast with the press today from the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif., Google trotted out a line-up of engineers to explain what is new for Web users and what Google hopes to gain with Chrome. Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president of product management, said the name Chrome itself is indicative of the key value that Google is aiming to provide with the new browser. Chrome is the space where the user interacts with the browser in the traditional Netscape/Mozilla view of browsers. It's an area that Google is aiming to minimize for usability. "Chrome is kind of an ironic name for our product," Pichai said. "Our view is that the browser is just a tool for people to interact with applications that they care about so browsers should not be self-important. We wanted to make sure that people were forgetting why they are using a browser." RELATED ARTICLES Here Comes Google's Browser Microsoft Issues Warnings on IE 8 Beta 2 Mozilla's Millions by The Numbers Who's King of the Browser Speed Jungle? Google to Shake Up Browsers With Own Launch For more stories on this topic: To that end, Google has introduced something called the... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

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