If you haven't heard, Google has recently released it's new browser, aka Chrome. I'm going to give you my two cents as to whether or not you should run out and install it. My mind could change down the road, but to put it bluntly as of today: don't do it. Here's why...

The first thing that alarmed me (but did not surprise me) - was Google's own Chrome Terms of Service - which essentially states that they have the right to do whatever they wish to with they data they collect from you using their product. So as is the same with their Gmail program, when you search or visit anything, Google knows it. I hear you saying, "but they don't know who I am so who cares?" It's important to understand just how quickly they could. First understand Chrome starts out by assigning each browser a unique ID (btw - firefox does the same thing). So to start, they know your browser, maybe not who you are (yet), but they've launched their honing devices. Now take Google's numerous other properties (search, adwords accounts, analytics accounts, etc.) that you may have interacted with or still do. Now tie these all together and you can easily see how Google can begin building up a profile of you as a user with, eh em, a name. Really? Yes, really. It wouldn't be that big of a jump for them to connect your unique browser id to your user profile and yes, ultimately your name. Scared yet? Think of it this way: by connecting all of that information, they not only know who you are, but everything you have been searching and/or viewing in your web browser. Drop that data is some fancy analytics software and presto, they got a pretty good snapshot of you. 

Lastly, there's the little fact that this software is a beta release still. Basically if you're using it now, your testing it for them. And just days after the browser had launched, a massive vulnerability was discovered that left your system at risk of a code execution attack, as well as a denial-of-service flaw that could lead your browser to crash and/or loose data. To be fair, a patch was released and updated via Chromes automatic update feature.

If your still considering installing Chrome, my advice would be to wait till everyone one else playing with the beta works out all the bugs. Then try it. And even then, ask your paranoid self, how much you want this giant called Google to know about you.