Chrome grabs 1% of browser market in under 24 hours

Google Inc.’s new Chrome browser grabbed 1% of the browser market in its first day out in public, Web metrics providers said today.

Both U.S.-based tracking company Net Applications Inc. and Irish vendor StatCounter put Chrome’s total market share at around 1%, less than 24 hours after the browser’s launch, passing rivals such as Opera and Netscape in the process.

“This is a phenomenal performance,” said CEO Aodhan Cullen, in a post to StatCounter’s blog today. StatCounter, which provides free visitor statistics tools to Web developers, monitors traffic on the sites run by its 1.5 million members.

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