Chromium and Google Chrome Relationship?

[Master Razor]

What is the relantionship beetween chronium and google? Google chrome is based on chromium, I know that.

I installed chromium and I get links leading to google chrome. Talking about start-up page, web store and some other hints leading straight to google.
Wasn't chromium open-source? It shouldn't have anything to do with google.

[slikrapid]

Because Chromium is the open source project that results in releases of Google Chrome, the history of the two is intertwined. Chromium is a project, making all releases developmental, with Chrome being the official release.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_%28web_browser%29

It shouldn't have anything to do with google.

they probably get ample financial (and other) support from google, which means their decisions are likely pretty much controlled/steered/influenced by google, ie. they're playing for the same team

[anon]

they probably get ample financial (and other) support from google, which means their decisions are likely pretty much controlled/steered/influenced by google, ie. they're playing for the same team

Mozilla Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

When I heard Google was making their own browser, I wondered what would happen to their financement of well, the competition. Looks like it's still going, although there might be something more subtle at work:
assertTrue( ): How Google is quietly killing Firefox

[SBfreak]

I hate posting links as answers but I believe this is what you are looking for.
Differences between Google Chrome and Linux distro Chromium