While Google’s Chrome is a nice looking product– it hasn’t gained much traction to date– recent reports state that as of last week, the new product has gained less than 1 percent market share– and was actually contracting in usage over the last 10 days as people go back to using  IE and Firefox.

It is very hard to get consumers to change their muscle memory– as I noted– I don’t think Google has been very successful in launching next generation twists on old services ala Instant Messaging, a browser– and I would  even argue email and mapping– directions compared to entrenched competitors.