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Google wants to get a larger pie on the browser market too with its Google Chrome or to say Google is getting greedier day by day. Remember once Google stated that it would not do anything to bring down Mozilla? Remember how it copied and used most of the successful open source components and codes that Mozilla used? Remember how Google promoted Chrome as an affiliate program until quite recently? Now its just doing the opposite. It just wants to move ahead in position with Mozilla and take up its market share.

Speaking to The Times, Google’s Vice President for Product Management, Sundar Pichai mentioned that Google Chrome would come out of its Beta cloud early next year. And not just that, he has plans to promote Google Chrome as a preinstalled product on computers as how Microsoft is promoting its Internet Explorer and its Live Search on HP systems worldwide.

Speaking to Murad Ahmed, he further mentioned, “We will probably do distribution deals,” he said, adding, “we could work with an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) and have them ship computers with Chrome pre-installed.”

On questions to how Google is planning to market it, he mentioned, “We will throw our weight behind it. We’ve been conservative because it’s still in beta, but once we get it out of beta we will work hard at getting the word out, promoting to users, and marketing will be a part of that.”

There are a lot of conflit of interest after Google Knol has been released. Google claims Knol to be its own unique idea. However, industry experts feel Knol is just a copy of Wikipedia with some money making features.

The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, surprisingly welcomed Google Knol stating, “The more good free content, the better for the world”. This answer can be one of the three reasons:

1. Google threatened Wiki at gun point to give this statement
2. Google might have had a quite deal with Wiki or paid a huge donation to the non-profit organization
3. Wikipedia does not have any understanding of how Google Knol works

Well, if the answers are ridiculous so is the wiki statement. Knol is a definite rival to encyclopedia sites like Wikipedia or About.com. Knol is more like About as it has more individual rights and totally marketing-free.

Several search engine experts feel that Google has already given Knol a good Page Rank even before it was live. This helps any content on Knol to appear in top search results. This favouritism can lead to Google users losing trust on Google Search and also a lot of spamming. Even copied content from a good website gives high rankings in Knol surpassing the original.

Cedric Dupont, Google product manager stated that :Google is very happy with Wikipedia being so successful. Anyone who tries to kill them would hurt us.” Was he into politics before? The statement sounds too political after all anyone on their first gaze knows why Knol was created. Just two things in mind.

“Capture Wiki and About users and Make some money out of it”.