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Google, one of the leading internet search and application providers, has today launched a web browser aimed at providing a rival to Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox.

Promoting a better service than current products available, Google Chrome is claimed to provide a more reliable and faster browser due to the way it displays webpages and net-based programs.

Google noted that it could handle interactive online applications with more ease than its competitors, using a process manager that allows each tab in the browser to run processes individually, meaning that a single problematic page does not affect the rest of the browser.

Speaking to the Guardian, Roger Kay of Endpoint Technologies Associates, said: quote marks? This gives Google another opportunity to protect its flank and to create a new branding position. Quote marks?

"We like this move by Google and believe it can help to increase or at least maintain its leading search market share."

Today, vnunet, replace with full stop com also revealed that Google had extended the functionality of Google Video to target business customers.

A recent Connect survey found that the two major concerns about outsourcing services like IT support were 'loss of control' (56 per cent) and 'budget over-runs' (43 per cent)