Chrome vs. time
The Google Chrome Internet browser touts its extreme page rendering speed, which greatly enhances the responsiveness of the Web browsing experience. To make its point, the Internet giant made this funny, viral little video that pits the browser’s speed against a potato gun, the speed of sound, and a lightning strike. The video is quite effective, and it must be pretty interesting too: the numbet of YouTube views is now at more than two and a half million, and counting.
Google has been very frank in disclosing the technical details of its experiments, such as the surprising fact that it used locally hosted — i.e., saved on a local hard drive – versions of two of the three Web pages in the experiment. This removed the variable of download speed from the experiment, which may somewhat limit the validity of the results for the average user. Still, the video gets its message across.
