Are installed apps installed for all users? ...

Moving to a new Mac Mini from Windows 7, kind of an OS X noob here. ;-)
I created several accounts for all 5 of us in the family. Logged in as myself I installed Google Chrome, accepting the defaults. I see it in my account, but not in the others.
Is that normal behavior? Do I have to install it separately foer each user account? What's the best way to handle this?
Thanks very much in advance,
Chris

If you install the application in the Applications folder at the top level directory of your hard drive it will be available to all users. If a user installs it in the Applications folder inside their user directory it will be available to onlly that user.
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