No doubt you have already heard of Google’s newly launched browser Chrome, based on Chromium’s open source platform. Whether Chrome will quickly eat up market share from IE and Firefox or if it will just end up at the bottom of the playground, remains to be seen. I’ve been trying it for the past several hours and, while the controls are still a bit awkward, the performance is good.

Still, Google Chrome in itself is not what I wanted to bring your attention to: it’s the window (pun intended!) of opportunity it opens for Google in regard to gathering even more data on users and their behavior. In today’s ever tightening world of online advertising, with rapidly dropping CPM levels and advertisers pressuring for accurate targeting, the ones able to fine-tune ad targeting will be the winners. Google has already enough information coming from all those using Google accounts and applications such as the toolbar – with Chrome, they have just taken a bigger bite from the pie and one step forward in user targeting. Read the full story