I’ve been trying to explain to my mom for months what a web browser is, with little luck. After a few rounds of failed attempts, I grew curious about people’s general understanding of web browsers. So I decided to conduct a highly-scientific (read: not scientific at all) survey of my friends and got the following [...]

Actually captioned by Google!

Google has spent a significant amount of time over the past couple of years building a very impressive web browser, Chrome. By most accounts, it's the fastest around, and isn't system resource heavy, and those who use it seem to love it. But there's a tiny little problem: Being the best product doesn't matter when general users have no idea what the product even is. And I'm not talking about just the specific product, I'm talking about the product category. And I'm not talking about some crazy new tech, I'm talking about a web browser.We've actually known since Google's hilarious video this summer that plenty of normal people have absolutely no idea what a web browser really is, even though most use one on a daily basis. But today, Google has put together what can only be described as an extremely dumbed-down one minute video (below) and rudimentary website to attempt to explain to everyone once again exactly what a web browser is. And make no mistake, the undertone is clear: You should be using Chrome.

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