Global market share held by web browsers as of August 2023

As of August 2023, Google’s Chrome accounted for 63.94 percent of the global web browser market share. Firefox and Internet Explorer have experienced massively reduced market share in recent years as Chrome’s influence has expanded and new competitors have entered the market. How are web browsers changing?In the UK, smartphones have overtaken traditional desktop computers as the most popular way to access the internet. Tech giants such as Samsung and Apple have used their smartphone hardware as a platform to encourage the use of their mobile web browsers. Each iPhone comes pre-loaded with Apple’s Safari set as its default internet browser, and consumers have become increasingly comfortable with the platform without having to seek it out themselves specifically. Google’s role in the webThroughout the years, Google has become increasingly vertically integrated at many levels of the tech industry. Already controlling the world’s most used search engine, the company also owns the world’s most popular web browser (Google Chrome), the world’s most popular email service (Gmail), the world’s most popular GPS mapping service (Google Maps), and has recently branched out into hardware itself, with its line of smartphones and wearable devices.

截至2023年8月，谷歌的Chrome浏览器占据了全球网络浏览器市场63.94%的份额。近年来，随着Chrome影响力的扩大以及新竞争者的进入，Firefox和Internet Explorer的市场份额大幅下降。网络浏览器正发生怎样的变化？在英国，智能手机已超越传统台式电脑，成为接入互联网的最受欢迎方式。科技巨头如三星和苹果已利用其智能手机硬件作为平台，鼓励用户使用其移动网络浏览器。每一部iPhone都预装了苹果的Safari浏览器，并将其设置为默认的互联网浏览器，消费者对这一平台的使用已越来越得心应手，无需专门寻找。在互联网领域的谷歌角色：多年来，谷歌在科技行业的多个层面逐渐实现了垂直整合。该公司已控制了全球最常用的搜索引擎（谷歌搜索），拥有全球最受欢迎的网页浏览器（谷歌Chrome）、最受欢迎的电子邮件服务（Gmail）、最受欢迎的GPS地图服务（谷歌地图），并最近还扩展至硬件领域，推出了其智能手机和可穿戴设备系列。