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Chrome Web Store plans unveiled

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Google has unveiled plans for the Chrome Web Store Wednesday during the first day of Google I/O. The idea is to give Chrome and Chrome OS users a one-stop Web application store of sorts, allowing them to access a central directory through their browser or Chrome OS computers and pay for those applications right from the storefront.

If it sounds like Apple's App Store or Google's Android Market, that's because it's a similar concept. Gone are the days of shrink-wrapped software that computer users could find on store shelves, said Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management at Google and one of the key architects behind the Chrome OS project.

However, it won't be the exclusive way of doing that, Pichai said. After all, the Web is the Web, and Web applications can be downloaded and installed from anywhere on the Web, he said. Other browsers will be able to hook into the Chrome Web Store if they choose to support the technology as well.

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