Google Inc is adding YouTube-like video communications features to its business application suite, looking to make video-sharing among office workers as easy as trading e-mails or instant messages.

Unlike YouTube, which is aimed at consumers, Google Video for business is designed to be shared among designated users within an organization’s own Web domain, protecting executive speeches, product training, sales meetings or other employee video messages from unauthorized disclosure outside the company.

Google Video for business is being incorporated into the Internet search leader’s Google Apps Premier Edition, which costs $50 a user for year for a package of business software, e-mail, scheduling and Web site design capabilities.

“What YouTube did in the consumer world, Google Video for business is going to do in the enterprise,” said Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google’s Enterprise division, the unit responsible for Google Apps.

From Septr 8, educational users of Google Apps can try out the service free for six months and will be charged $10 a user to continue using video afterward.

Unlike videoconferencing services that require specialized hardware and software installations in offices, Google Video for business users can simply trade Web site addresses to view videos as the videos are delivered from Google computers.

Google Inc is set to introduce on Tuesday a new Web browser designed to more quickly handle video-rich or other complex Web programs, posing a challenge to browsers designed originally to handle text and graphics.

Google officials confirmed news of long-rumored plans to offer its own Web browsing software, entitled Google Chrome, in a company blog post after it mistakenly mailed details of the plan to a Google-watching blog, called Blogoscoped.com.

The company statement calls the move “a fresh take on the browser” and said it will be introducing a public trial of the Web browser for Microsoft Corp Windows users on Tuesday.

The Internet search leader is also working on versions for Apple Macintosh users and for Linux devices, it said.

Chrome organizes information into tabbed pages. Web programs can be launched in their own dedicated windows. It also offers a variety of features to make the browser more stable and secure, according to the comic book guide.

Among Chrome’s features is a special privacy mode that lets users create an “incognito” window where “nothing that occurs in that window is ever logged on your computer.” This is a read-only feature with access to one’s bookmarks of favorite sites.

Once available for testing on Tuesday, the browser can be downloaded at www.google.com/chrome/.