Google Prepares to Compete with Microsoft
Google is promoting the open-source Firefox internet browser like never before. It has revealed a new plan to start a new phase in the browser wars against Microsoft. Browsers are much more profitable than previously thought because the search box and location bar can be used to generate traffic towards the search engine’s website, which allows it to serve more ads and earn more revenue.
Google launched the new programme Wednesday evening by running an ad for the first time on its usually ad-free home page. The campaign also represents the first time Google has offered a financial incentive for the adoption of Firefox.
Even without such help, the open source browser has steadily been gnawing away at the dominance of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser since 2004.
From a market share high of 95 per cent, Internet Explorer is now down to 85 per cent, as web surfers discover the smooth delights of Firefox, which offers better security and powerful features. It also includes tabbed browsing, which allows you to open multiple windows in a single browser, and “autofill” which automatically completes form applications.
Google has already employed some of the key team members contributing to Firefox and its latest initiative underlines its desire to keep Firefox’s momentum building.
“Google is getting serious about Firefox, and has given the upstart browser one of the most powerful marketing tools on the Internet – a spot on the Google homepage,” commented the Ars Technica website.
However, Microsoft does not plan to let the erosion of its market share continue. Earlier this week, the software giant launched a new trial version of its Internet Explorer browser, which in addition to beefing up its notoriously vulnerable security, has also copied all of Firefox’s best features.
“I think IE 7 brings the browser to parity with Firefox in terms of features, and the security is a big improvement over IE 6,” said Matt Rosoff, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft “I think it will be good enough to stop some of IE’s market share loss to Firefox.”
But despite the upgrades, you are unlikely to see many Firefox fans switching back to Microsoft.
“Yesterday’s browser – tomorrow,” is how the influential website Silicon Valley.com announced the new product.
Other players like ExplorerDestroyer.com, a self styled group devoted to ridding cyberspace of Internet Explorer, believe that Firefox is about to “take back the web”.
It offers websites a number of pre-configured options to get visitors to download Firefox – taking advantage of Google’s latest offer. It also offers downloadable ads including a spoof of the Kill Bill movies with the catchy line “kill Bill’s Browser. Take back the web. With a Vengeance.”
However, Microsoft’s history is replete with examples of the company using its financial and distribution muscle to overpower smaller competitors. It used such tactics with devastating effect in the first round of the browser wars in the 1990’s, when it challenged the once dominant Netscape browser and eventually drove it out of business.
Information Week ran a comprehensive test of both browsers and concluded that Firefox was still slightly ahead especially for technology savvy users like programmer Mitchell Adams.
“I will never go back to IE,” Adams said “Firefox offers so many options, and when the next version of Firefox comes out, it will leave the new IE for dead”.
via economictimes
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