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Can Google's Chrome Banner Change the Course of the Browser Wars?



Google has an ad banner in their search home page for their Chrome browser. Can it eventually change the course of the browser wars? And what can happen if it does?


Google's search home page has stayed clean forever, with no clutter or advertising banners of any kind. When Chrome came out, they broke their self-imposed rule to promote their browser whenever an Internet Explorer user arrived to their page. Using their most powerful nuke—the most popular home page in the world—Google is looking to change the course of the Browser War. Now that Chrome is available for Mac, the banner has started to appear in Safari too. According to the latest statistics, their strategy is working well, growing to a 4.4% browser market share in 15 months.

Google knows they need to control the web in every sense, and Chrome is now one of the most important pieces in their strategy to keep their web stronghold. It's clearly the cornerstone of their future plans to take over the incoming new computing world—a world of smart phones and new devices that will eventually replace the computer as we know it. They are hoping the majority of those smart phones would be running Android, and tablets and computers would running ChromeOS. And rendering their web world, there will be Chrome. Not Internet Explorer, Safari/Webkit, or Firefox. Google wants to own the delivery medium, power the hardware, deploy the browser, and then control the delivery of the content. They want the whole enchilada. Read more >>>
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Kerajaan Jeumpa, Kerajaan Islam Pertama Nusantara

Teori tentang kerajaan Islam pertama di Nusantara sampai saat ini masih banyak diperdebatkan oleh para peneliti, baik cendekiawan Muslim maupun non Muslim. Umumnya perbedaan pendapat tentang teori ini didasarkan pada teori awal mula masuknya Islam ke Nusantara. Mengenai teori Islamisasi di Nusantara, para ahli sejarah terbagi menjadi 3 kelompok besar, yaitu pendukung (i) Teori Gujarat (ii) Teori Parsia dan (iii) Teori Mekah (Arab). Bukan maksud tulisan ini untuk membahas teori-teori tersebut secara mendetil, namun dari penelitian yang penulis lakukan, maka dapat disimpulkan bahwa Teori Mekkah (Arab) lebih mendekati kebenaran dengan fakta-fakta yang dikemukakan. Teori Mekkah (Arab) hakikatnya adalah koreksi terhadap teori Gujarat dan bantahan terhadap teori Persia. Di antara para ahli yang menganut teori ini adalah T.W. Arnold, Crawfurd, Keijzer, Niemann, De Holander, SMN. Al-Attas, A. Hasymi, dan Hamka. i Arnold menyatakan para pedagang Arab menyebarkan Islam ketika mereka mendo...
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Generasi Muda Wajib Tahu! Museum Tsunami Aceh Jadi Pusat Belajar Mitigasi

MUSEUM Tsunami Aceh kembali jadi sorotan. Kali ini, Wakil Menteri Kependudukan dan Pembangunan Keluarga ( Wamen Dukbangga ) atau Wakil Kepala BKKBN , Ratu Ayu Isyana Bagoes Oka , berkunjung langsung untuk melihat bagaimana museum kebanggaan masyarakat Aceh ini terus hidup sebagai pusat edukasi kebencanaan, Kamis, 9 Oktober 2025.  Didampingi Ketua TP PKK Aceh Marlina Usman, kunjungan ini bukan sekadar seremoni. Isyana menegaskan bahwa museum ini punya peran strategis: bukan hanya monumen peringatan tsunami 2004 , tapi juga ruang belajar generasi muda tentang kesiapsiagaan bencana dan ketangguhan keluarga. “Museum ini jadi pengingat dahsyatnya tsunami 2004, sekaligus tempat belajar bagi generasi yang saat itu belum lahir. Mereka perlu tahu apa yang harus dilakukan saat bencana datang,” ujar Isyana, yang juga mengenang pengalamannya meliput langsung Aceh pascatsunami 20 tahun lalu. Kepala UPTD Museum Tsunami Aceh M Syahputra AZ, menyambut hangat kunjungan ini. Ia menegaskan bahw...
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Say Cheese: 12 Photos That Should Never Have Been Posted Online

You know the old cliche, a picture is worth a thousand words? Turns out that pictures have been deeply undervalued: A single photo can cost you your reputation, your job, even your freedom--if you post it online. Teachers, principals, firefighters, mayors, university presidents, and everyday people have all discovered the dark side of putting the wrong photos and videos on social networking sites. Sometimes they paid the price in embarrassment. An unlucky handful lost their jobs or landed in jail. The results aren't pretty, but they are sometimes hilarious. Here's our dirty dozen--12 pictures their owners probably wish they could take back. 1. Hey Kevin, Tinker Bell Wants Her Outfit Back It's bad enough to dress up like you're about to slip a dollar under some toothless child's pillow. But former intern Kevin Colvin made it much worse by asking his boss at Anglo Irish Bank if he could take time off for a "family emergency in New York," then flitting o...
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