You do know what a browser is, don’t you?

by Dan Perlman on June 23, 2009

in browsers

I went on and on about web browsers last week. I wrote about the different ones and how there was a new browser war underway. Did you follow me?

The reason I ask, is Google sent a team into Times Square in NYC to ask about browsers and found that only 8% of the folks interviewed actually knew what was a browser. Most seemed to confuse browsers and search engines.

Now this was probably a pretty unscientific sample but also probably fairly typical. I’m not sure Google’s point in this exercise but it comes off a bit like a sequence of Jay Leno’s “Jay Walking”.

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  • Phoenix
    Showing my age here but I remember when I could only see the Internet through text. No pictures, no video, no links. The browser revolutionized the Internet for me. It was like entering a dark room and turning on the light. The dark room was the Internet, there was a lot there but I couldn't see it. The light was the browser, it made everything visible. Now, though, the battle is to see which browser can add functionality. Now, I want to do more than see the things in the room. I want to interact with them, arrange them and have them communicate with each other and my friends.
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