Chrome and Google Analytics

Like any webmaster I'm interested in the browsers people use to visit my sites.  Unlike sites like Tripadvisor (can't recognise Chrome today), or Facebook (can't work with Chrome today), my sites don't care what browser you use.  But my business partner and I are interested!

Today I have had a reasonable number of Chrome equipped visitors drop in to this blog, and I thought you might like to see how, today, Google Analytics recognises Chrome:

Yes, it thinks it's Safari running in Windows!

A few years ago I worked for Gartner.  For the five years I worked there we wondered how the 900lb gorilla in its space could be so silo oriented and still make money.  Seems that Gartner wasn't (isn't?)  alone in being silo oriented.  Mind you, Google is bigger than Gartner.  Bigger silos, then!

But isn't it (pick one from: funny, hilarious, pathetic, stupid, aggravating, weird, expected, usual, bizarre) for Google to come up with what is, for it, a big launch and fail to have its analytics product actually recognise and shout about its exciting (getting carried away now, sorry) new browser? That would be marketing, would it not?

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Update: Google Analytics has caught up.  Chrome is now featured with its own separate line. I still think they might have done that earlier.  "Let not the left hand know what the right hand is doing!" 

[updated 4 September 2008]