Google’s new Web browser, Chrome, is key to the company’s push to connect its myriad Web offerings and become an integrated online service provider. That said, writing it off a month after its release — based partly on figures that show a decline in downloads — seems more Schadenfreude than sober analysis. Chrome’s share of the overall market peaked on Sept. 4 at 1.16 percent, according to NetApplications. By Oct. 5, that number had dropped to 0.81 percent. Usage appears to have stabilized at about .7 percent.
