Chrome’s Market Share Drops In January; Was It Due To Google’s Penalty?
by affaholic on Saturday, February 4th, 2012 | 2 Comments
After 17 straight months of gains in market share, Google’s Chrome web browser dropped 0.17 percent in January, and the company that tracks browser market share suggests that it’s because Google penalized Chrome after a botched sponsored blog post campaign. The figures come from Net…
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I don’t normally run Windows, and when I do, I almost always run Chrome. But I’m a bit surprised that Firefox is losing share to IE. Firefox has nearly erased the gap with Chrome, and in some cases it’s actually better.
Ahead of the Firefox deal Google was likely advertising Chrome so aggressively that they were losing money on the ads, so that they would show a higher growth rate and have greater leverage over Firefox when re-negotiating a search deal. After that deal went through for another 3 years Google lost some incentive to aggressively market Chrome (since they are spending nearly a million Dollars a day on the Firefox deal).