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I use it a lot and really like it.

As far as what Google stands to gain: they pay millions to firefox and others for search referrals stemming from the firefox homepage and the integrated search bar. Also, Google certainly benefits from people surfing the web faster (more page views = more money for them).

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I've always wondered if this is naive: couldn't a large part of it be that somebody at Google said "all these other browsers suck" and decided to fix it? I mean, Chrome takes ideas from other browsers and puts it together into something that's superb in nearly every way, especially for a beta. Google could very well have started the project intending just to make a really good thing.

That and, you know, the millions of dollars thing. That's big too.

(Does anybody else find it annoying that Google's software is always more aesthetically pleasing than their online programs?)

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