Chrome’s Omnibox to go anonymous in 24 hours
September 10, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
On the Google Blog, Sr Vice President of Operations, Urs Holzle, announced today that IP addresses logged by the Google Suggest feature in Chrome’s Omnibox will go anonymous “within about 24 hours”.
The change comes about in response to criticism and concerns raised about Google storing IP addresses and search terms of Chrome users.
Good move Google!
Seriously though, Google also says that they were only holding data from 2% of the users. This means it wasn’t holding 98% of the data it received. Still, it’s great that Google stood up and did the right thing.
Separately, Sean Carlson, Google’s Australia public affairs rep, reportedly said that Google doesn’t capture any more information than what is already being captures by Microsoft (IE), Mozilla (Firefox), and Apple (Safari).
That may be true or it may not be true, but now at least we have an official policy from Google which provides us with an alternative.
You can read Urs Holzle’s full post here.
Chris Keall at National Business Review New Zealand has more about this topic in his article here.
Another Google Chrome vs IE vs Firefox summary
September 9, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
One of Google’s stated goals with Chrome is that it will help keep the eco-system healthy.
Undoubtedly stimulating competition is part of this.
JR Raphael at PC world posted his summary of the good, bad and ugly for each of the 3 main browsers.
You can see JR’s full article here.
Google Chrome is Geek Nirvana
September 4, 2008 by admin · 2 Comments
Google Chrome is Geek Nirvana…or should I say “Geek Nerdvana”.
Programmers, IT people, scientists, members of Mensa and all the geeks worldwide get it.
Chrome is a very early release piece of software that is a building block for a better future.
That future might be a few years away, but what the heck, we’re on the right track now and that’s a start.
These same folk also know that software usually takes a couple of years to develop, so as much as they see the vision, they are also patient. After all, we’re on the right track with Google Chrome.
SO WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH ALL THE SUITS…?
Reading the major news on Chrome today, you see all the bugs, problems, incompatibilities, speed tests, etc. comparing and talking about Chrome Version 0.2 versus Firefox version 3.0 or Internet Explorer version 8.0 Beta.
Does anyone else see the silliness?
Chrome Version 0.2…that is ZERO point TWO versus Firefox version 3.0 (THREEE point ZERO) versus IE version 8.0beta(EIGHT point ZERO).
Such a wide range of effort, experience and development time, the comparisons don’t make sense.
How about if we compare “apples to apples”?
Anyone remember the first version of Internet Explorer? Let’s go dig it up and see how it compares to Chrome.
How about going back to before the first Firefox beta. Any remember what Firefox 0.2 looked like? Anyone want to compare that to Chrome?
Let’s save comparing finished software to other finished software.
If you wantto get a true “apples to apples” comparison with Chrome, go find another version 0.2 browser…
Rather than rant on…
Why don’t we simply say:
“Thank you Google for taking the bold step, and spending lots of money, to encourage competition in the browser market. Also, thank you for making your source code free to the world.”
