Google announced today that it has released a beta version of a new web browser called Google Chrome. This new browser has been designed with a new architecture designed for speed, security and stability while browsing the internet.

In Google’s Official Blog, it explains the reasons why Google chose to create “Google Chrome” from scratch. Understanding that most of their employees spend a great number of hours each day in a web browser chatting, browsing and emailing but also in their spare time shopping, banking online and reading current events, the people at Google felt that today’s web browser needed a complete overhaul, “What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.”

Some features of Google Chrome include a brand new JavaScript engine, named V8, which is able to handle the newest JavaScript applications that conventional web browsers may or may not be able to handle as of yet. The URL address bar, conventionally used to type in the URL you would like to visit, is also a search box in Google Chrome which gives you search suggestions or even pages you’ve previously visited based on search history.

Speaking of “Search History”, last week, Microsoft announced that Internet Explorer 8, due to be released later this year, will come with a Privacy Mode and two applications: “Cleartracks” and “Inprivate”. These two applications are said to delete history as well as disable history and file caching features of a web browser. Google’s Chrome only features an “Incognito Mode” which will still gather personal information about a visit, but gives the visitor the option of not saving their search history.

Google Chrome was built using the same open source rendering engine as Apple’s Safari browser, so web pages and sites should appear exactly as they do in the Apple browser…Read more about Google Chrome.