More Chromebooks emerge online, but Google's OS still lags

U.S. web usage for Google's Chrome OS has risen 700 percent since last summer but that still pegs the revolutionary cloud OS on less than 0.1 percent of traffic, according to ad network Chitika. The measurement was based on ad impressions recorded for the platform between a fairly narrow window of January 12 through 18, and only for the U.S. This showed that Chrome OS machines accounted for 0.07 percent of web traffic, a number not far short of the 0.08 percent recorded for Sony's PlayStation but above the 0.02 percent for Nintendo's Wii. Apart from the short measurement window, and the fact that cheap Chromebooks from Samsung and Acer have only been on the market for a handful of months, it is also impossible to know how representative numbers from a single ad network can be. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here