> Who is this wording aimed at? Part of this is probably just marketing people wanting to make things sound exciting. (I'm tempted to mock this tendency, but i

> Who is this wording aimed at? Part of this is probably just marketing people wanting to make things sound exciting. (I'm tempted to mock this tendency, but it may well be that this sort of wordplay works. I have no idea.) But I also think there is a surprising number of People who are familiar with the phrase "browsing the internet" but are not necessarily aware that the software you use to do this is called a "web browser." I find that many non-technical people in my life fall into this category. It's surprising that people don't make the purely grammatical connection between "browsING" and "browsER," but it seems to be a real phenomenon. Perhaps the word "browser" strikes people as jargon and so they screen it out.