Did you hear the news? Google is going to start offering their own web browser. Wow. Just what we need. Another browser. I can hear the web developers whining already. This doesn’t work, that doesn’t work. Browsers always have their own quirks.

Google Inc is set to introduce on Tuesday a new Web browser designed to more quickly handle video-rich or other complex Web programs, posing a challenge to browsers designed originally to handle text and graphics.

Google officials confirmed news of long-rumored plans to offer its own Web browsing software, entitled Google Chrome, in a company blog post after it mistakenly mailed details of the plan to a Google-watching blog, called Blogoscoped.com.

Of course, since it’s Google, everyone will bow down at their feet and accept their ‘Chrome’ browser, with no questions asked. Well, there might be one question.

Couldn’t they come up with a better name than ‘Chrome’? When I hear the name chrome, I think of old cars or online auto insurance quotes. And it isn’t chrome anyway. What gives?

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