Google: Most don't know what web browser is

Creates video to tell you

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7 October 2009 1:42 GMT / By Stuart Miles

Google has found that the majority of internet users don't actually know what a browser is.

Hard as it may seem to a tech whiz like yourself, a quick un-scientific survey found that most people have no real idea what a browser does or which one they use.

Clearly hoping to educate and then encourage them to use its own browser Chrome, the search engine has even gone as far as create a site - www.whatbrowser.org - and a video to let you know what's what.

According to Jason Toff, associate product marketing manager at Google, a survey of his mates found that while 90% of them knew what car they drive, only 50% knew what browser they use.

He also believes that the "web browser is the most important piece of software on your computer".

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  • How true!

    I was amazed to find that many of my friends computers had "keyboards" to type things on to the screen. I've never used one myself. I prefer the flat, letter-pressing thing that came with my laptop.
    Posted by mark, uk
  • I noticed long ago that people cannot name which web browser they are using. I realised that the average non techi using a computer doesn't think of it as a device running applications. They just see it as using a computer. Click the blue E and this internet page comes up. Usually the default page is one set up by the disc that they were sent to set up their internet connection. I have people tell me their computer has gone wrong when all that has happened is they have clicked a link that changed the default web page, leaving them without a clue how to get to the page they usually start on. Posted by Allan Weaver, England

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