The first Google (NSDQ: GOOG) TV ad for Chrome plays up the browser’s simplicity—as easy to use as putting together some blocks, the ad basically claims. But Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has settled on a different angle with Internet Explorer. In one of its inaugural pitches for the browser (featuring Superman Dean Cain), it highlights the chaos that it believes would exist without IE.

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The ads, after the jump.