Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Yandex and Google asked Mail.Ru abandon Google Chrome





corporation. Google. asked the Russian company. Mail. Ru. Group. and '. Yandex. ' Do not use the name in their browsers '. Chrome. 'And'. chrome. '. This is with reference to the representatives of the Internet giant newspaper Vedomosti in its issue of January 24, 2012.
Google Chrome browser. was released in September 2008. Together with the developers presented the latest version of open source software, called. Chromium.

The license allows production of Chromium on the basis of his own versions of browsers, but forbids them to use the word '. Chrome. '. In addition, indicate ' Gazette ', in the mid- 2011. Google. filed an application for registration of a trademark in Russia. Chrome. Previously, the company has already received international registration of this mark, and it extends to the territory of Russia.

Mail. Ru. and '. Yandex. ' Bypassed this limitation by calling their browsers based on the. Chromium. Russian word '. chrome. '. now, however,. Google. asked them to abandon the Cyrillic spelling, consonant with the name of its own browser. The Company '. Rambler. ', Describing its development '. nichrome. ' Claims of. Google. not received, the newspaper.

Since January 2012 the development '. Yandex. ' Was called '. Yandex browser. Internet. 'And. Mail. Ru. still uses the name '. chrome. 'And discuss the matter with. Google. , Told ... The newspaper believes that the requirement. Google. may be due to the fact that search engines '. Yandex. 'and. Mail. Ru. began to increase in popularity in its development.

At the same time last year the share of search engine. Google. in Russia grew and reached 25.5 percent according to. Liveinternet. During the same period, the proportion '. Yandex. ' Russia's most popular search service, declined to 60.6 percent.

The most popular browser in Russia, according to Stat Counter is. Firefox. And in November 2011. Chrome. bypassed. Opera. and took second place.




Source:. lenta. ru.

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