Google's New Web Browser (broadcast Friday, September 5th, 2008)

Screenshot of the Chrome browser interface Google, Inc

This week, web search giant Google unveiled a new piece of web browser software. Web browsers, such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox, are the way people experience the World Wide Web. Google's new browser, called Chrome, offers a few new ways of working with online information, and improves performance in some areas such as working with Javascript code. The program is open source, and is based on some of the same underlying code (Webkit) that powers Apple's Safari browser. We'll take a look at what the program can do, and why a search engine leader wants to get into the web software market.