One billion monthly mobile users for Google

Google is celebrating the 50th release of Google Chrome announcing few statistical numbers it has achieved until now; the highlight being more than 1 billion monthly mobile users for the search giant. Some of the other Google apps and services that are in the 1 billion+ club are Google Play, Maps, Search, and YouTube.

Chrome has the highest use among mobile users – accounting for 33 percent of all mobile traffic. According to data by Stat counter, when the traffic is combined with its desktop and tablet users, Google Chrome now makes up almost half of all web traffic worldwide.

"Chrome reached a pretty big milestone this week - it's 50th release! We originally launched Chrome to give users a fast, simple and secure browser. That still remains our mission today. And while there's still much more to do - especially with the shift to mobile and providing a great experience for people using the mobile web for the first time - we thought we'd take a step back and reflect on our journey so far,"said Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, Director and Stats Stockpiler, in the company blog post. He added that the company’s mission is to provide users a fast, simple and secure browser with Chrome, which was rolled out in 2008.

Other statistics revealed by Google include 771 billion page loads, 500 billion characters not typed because of auto complete, over 2 million GB of data saved, 3.6 billion pages automatically translated, 9.1 billion forms and passwords auto-filled, and protected users 145 million times from malicious web pages. The search giant said it also gave more than $2,50,000 in rewards to the research community who helped strengthen Chrome.

Google has announced that its Chrome OS will be the first to adopt the Material Design revamp before Chrome the browser gets it. Sebastien Gabriel, Senior designer at Google said, "The project took a year and involved redesigning Chrome core UI from the ground up for all desktop platforms. The team has now completely removed the 1200 png assets to entirely render it programmatically."

The revamped Chrome OS include a new default theme, overhaul in Incognito theme with a new dark color, revamp of tab shapes, icons, and Omnibox to match mobile, Material Design ripples and morphing buttons states introduction, new color with a more accessible color scheme, along with new info bars and buttons.

Google, in addition, has brought in a hybrid alternate layout which is easy to use for touch-enabled and convertible devices - one of the USPs of Chromebooks, where the new layout will activate automatically by default in touch screen Chromebooks.