The launching of Google’s Chrome browser just a year ago had led to a lot of unmet expectations. Some even said that it must have been an instant disrupt at the same time yielding as Gmail was to the webmail market. Nevertheless, Google opened another front which is against Microsoft having a bigger move to compete with its close partner Mozilla, the maker of Firefox. Google was being hesitant to enter such a market, but they stated that they had no choice. They made the choice even though they were in complete dissatisfaction from their existing browsers because of its speed and performance. However, having a 4% market share, Chrome, which was launched on Sept 1 2008, just last year, wasn’t able to compete successfully to its competitor, Internet Explorer, nor Firefox.

Sheri McLeish, a Forrester analyst also notes that Chrome is unable to compete with the other browsers.

Also, Chrome doesn’t exist for Mac OS and Linux users, two camps that contains technology enthusiasts. And apparently, large enterprises closed their doors to Chrome because of lack of features from their IT Departments.

There are, also some hindrances, Chrome has to fix aside from these two issues. This pertains to some, which consumers who don’t know about browsers. Also, questions like “do consumers really need another browser and would they offer new features that are better than other existing browsers?” are left unanswered.

Google had caused more trouble because Chrome cannot even work well in Google though they owned it because they did not inform their webmasters beforehand that they will adapt to their sites. McLeish is not very happy with the response that Chrome has got from the mass.

Should Google still want to pursue this project considering that their top competitors are continuing to soar high and improved?

IDC analyst Al Hilwa thinks that Google should stay in the game and not give up as well because a lot of marketing and research went into the planning of Chrome.

According to Brian Rakowski, a Google group product manager in the Chrome team, thinks that even though there is a lot of work to be done with regards to this project, the team is looking forward to the fun. He also adds that throughout history browsers take time to make it big and thinks that Chrome has done pretty well in a short span.