Google Secretly Updates Google Chrome Version

With the recent release of Google Chrome web browser (still in beta stage), how many of you have realised that Google actually automatically updates your browser version, without you realising it?

Following the Google Chrome Dev Channel Chooser tool, made available by Google, I have actually updated to the developer's version of 0.2.152.1 (as you can see from the screen-shot below).

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Over the past couple of weeks, I have never gave any permission or command to update my current version Google Chrome, but guess what? A new (latest) version of Google Chrome was indicated on the About tab, showing version 0.3.154.0! Since when did Google manage to update our browser without obtaining our permission?

Upon further investigation, I found something more interesting. Google has actually placed a file, "GoogleUpdate.exe" in the registry that loads upon Windows system boot-up. This is probably not so surprising as Google is renowned for collecting data from end-users' system.

However, what really amazed me is that Google actually updates the web browser so silently that you don't even feel that it is actually existing. If not for the task manager program, I would probably not be able to identify this file from the pool of resources.