Google finally launched the much anticipated web browser on 2 september. It is called

With Chrome, Google has entered into almost all the areas of internet be it email, chat application, video sharing platform, social networking sites, online advertising technology and now web browser.

Sometimes my radical thinking forces me to think and think really hard -

Is Google going the Microsoft monopoly way ?

Well the ardent followers of Google ( including me ) would put up an argument that all the things are open source and both of them are pole apart. Accepted but if we observe the nature of both the organization, similarities could be drawn.

1) Both are dominant in their core-competency areas i.e. Microsoft in desktop OS and Google in the internet world.

2) Both would go to any extent to save their turf which was pretty evident from Microsoft tactics in mid nineties and recent strategic play by Google in fending off Microsoft bid for Yahoo.

3) Both made sure that they leave no stone unturned in expanding their presence in big way.

Now one may say that what’s wrong with these things and besides these look pretty innocous. Also every big organization is bound to do all these things to keep its territory intact. But these facts discomfort me -

1) Google has the largest database of email addresses larger than some of the big state organizations. Just imagine if, God forbids, somehow this database is leaked, what hell will break loose.

2) Today, Youtube consumes the amount of bandwidth which whole internet used to take in 2000. I don’t even want to think about it!

3) Every new famous and genuine internet discovery comes under the Google umbrella.

I wish all the good luck to Google Chrome and really hope that future doesn’t repeat history.

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