# Google launches Chrome

Date: 2008

## The fact

On 2 September 2008 Google launched Chrome, a completed browser instrument [Pichai](/people/sundar-pichai) later ran as product chief and then CEO.

## Context

He led the Chrome team. Neighbouring Android 2013 is later mobile. Neighbouring Mehta 2024 is later monopoly law.

Android 2013 is neighbouring mobile. Mehta 2024 is later search-default law. DMA 2023 is later EU listing.

Sundar Pichai has been CEO of Google since 10 August 2015 and of Alphabet since 3 December 2019. He does not write a Sherman Act complaint, a Commission DMA article, a CAC circular, or a Pentagon contract clause by himself as a civil servant. A keynote is not a completed breakup. A liability opinion is not a Chrome sale. A layoff round is not a unique unemployment coefficient as his personal tally. TPU trains; TSMC and partners fabricate; App Review analogues on Play enforce. Keep those dates separate. An AI Principle PDF is not a completed weapons ban. A settlement is not a verdict. [Larry Page](/people/larry-page) is a different person. Sergey Brin is a different person.

## Evidence and sources

Google carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [industrial-policy activism](/drivers/industrial-policy-activism) and digital-platform-power: a completed browser launch is an access-and-later-default instrument. A browser is not a 2024 opinion.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2 September 2008 Chrome launch, independently reported.

Not established: that competition ended that day, or a unique later search-share coefficient from the first download.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Page/Brin were CEO-class neighbours. Users downloaded. Microsoft’s IE sat as a neighbouring browser.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Google launches Chrome, not a later speech about Google launches Chrome.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Google launches Chrome on 2008-09-02 is not a licence to treat every later Google communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Google launches Chrome into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He led Chrome. Page/Brin were CEO-class neighbours. Users downloaded. Microsoft’s IE sat as a neighbouring browser. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Sundar Pichai: https://factrail.ai/people/sundar-pichai

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism
- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-chrome-idUSN0220080902
- https://blog.google/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/goog-chrome-2008