Internet Explorer users abandoned the browser last week to try out Google Inc.’s new Chrome, a Web metrics vendor said today.

While Chrome accounted for 0.7% of all browsers used last week on average, Microsoft Corp.’s IE lost 1.4 percentage points in market share during the same period, said U.S.-based tracking company Net Applications. Microsoft’s browser ended the week with a 71% share.

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Google has gained one percent of the browser market share only ten hours after the launch of the Chrome , according to figures from Net Applications. This puts Chrome immediately on an equal figures as Opera.

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