Google launched its new web browser in part to stop its rival, Microsoft, from “balkanising” the internet by carving it up in ways that favoured its own services, the internet company's chief executive officer said yesterday.
Speaking in an interview with the Financial Times at the Republican national convention in St Paul, Eric Schmidt said Google's new Chrome browser had been built mainly to create a more secure and stable platform for internet users.
However, he also conceded that “there is a defensive component” to the decision as Google tries to prevent Microsoft from using its dominant Internet Explorer browser to outflank it.
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