A Link to Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With Unsettlingly Specific Apology
“We would like to extend our deepest apologies to each and every one of you,” announced CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking from the company’s Googleplex headquarters. “Clearly there have been some privacy concerns as of late, and judging by some of the search terms we’ve seen, along with the tens of thousands of personal e-mail exchanges and Google Chat conversations we’ve carefully examined, it looks as though it might be a while before we regain your trust.”
A Post Entitled Google Chrome for Linux
It seems Google are now actively pushing Chrome on Linux users. Finally! The browsing experience on my netbook has been pretty rough: Firefox runs like an absolute pigdog. Epiphany is much better, but generally feels like a browser from half a decade ago, and Midori is much the same, but also tends to crash a lot.
As of right now, I am switching to Chrome. This beta version supports extensions (and I notice some good ones are already available), and runs quick as you like. Gmail performs significantly better. The minimal interface works perfectly for a small screen. Flash plays smoothly. It imported all my Firefox settings perfectly.
This is a big deal.
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“40 years of Sesame Street” Google doodle. This after yesterday’s “20 years of Wallace & Gromit” one (which may have been UK only?).
I’m very fond of the Google doodles, and these last couple have been great fun, but they’re the first examples I can remember of doodles based around commercial products. They normally relate to events like the moon landing, a famous artist’s birthday etc.
The Google homepage must be one of the most valuable pieces of web real-estate around. Are they really promoting entertainment brands for free? Is this a sign that Google are going to start having “sponsored” homepages? (I’ve not really investigated this, but just a thought…)
Further, I’ve noticed (although have no specific data on this) that there have been much-more-frequent-than-usual doodles recently. The marketer in me thinks this is a deliberate attempt to differentiate from Bing for the mainstream non-geek, especially with the Microsoft search engine’s very picture-based homepage.
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Wallace and Gromit logo for google.co.uk
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Google Maps gone wrong (via You Tube)
