Yes, so Google has rolled out it’s latest world-conquering app – the Google Chrome browser. It’s been out a couple of days now and so far I’m really liking what I see. It’s a beta release, but don’t let that stop you from trying it out – trust me, you’ll be better off.

There are heaps of blogs, reviews, press releases and the likes floating around the place breaking it all down and weighing up the pros v cons of Chrome, but he is my no-nonsense take of Google’s newest play toy.

  1. It’s cool. You don’t have to be a tech-head cyber guru to get a kick out of this. Forget how it works (I’ll get to that), it just looks so cool. It’s slimline, it’s minimal and it doesn’t even look like a browser – it’s all about the pages baby!
  2. It works. Well, pretty bloody good for a beta release, it’s more of a beta 2.0. The new take of tabs operating fully independently is very clever. This means that if one nasty webpage is crashing out, then it won’t take down the other 43 tabs that you have open watching eBay auctions closing in 2 minutes.
  3. It remembers stuff. Top 9 pages you visit, your recent closed tabs and more without having to tell it to – how thoughtful.
  4. It spies on you – hardcore. Well at least I’d imagine it would. Google knows you better than you probably know yourself. Hey, I don’t really mind – I trust Google and I’d rather be target marketed than bombarded with crap. So people might take issue with Google’s impending world domination, but not me – I’m all for it and will be cheering them on all the way!

Anyways, there’s heaps more to say, but that’s just a little snippet of what’s going on upstairs.

Speaking of Google….they’ve been kind enough to provide some though-provoking content that should be appearing about 5mm due south of here….