Capping IT Off

If u are you on internet someone would always know what you are doing.Its in nature of internet. Period. How does that make anyone or google evil! What makes you say that google has a hidden agenda? Is it backed by facts or mere heresey! Ok so i have my data stored with google but i also have my data stored with banks. So!

Great post Rick!

It's good to see people beeing critic to Google or Apple. They get away way too easy in many cases, with Microsoft beeing the big bad guy... That beeing said, I have all my personal stuff at Google, and choose to trust them... I know they know alot about me, and that they use this information to make money.. But that's okay - I get an excellent service, and I don't feel like I'm giving away more than what I'm comfertable with...

However, I'm not too happy about this new browser move... Why couldn't they just back Firefox? Guess they don't want to pay that big provision to Mozilla for having the Google search enginge as the landing page. One more browser to think off when building web sites... Bah. Well, at least it's based on Webkit..

Microsoft hasn't made any announcements around Silverlight for this new browser. I guess it depends on what plugin API they adopt. Hopefully something based on either Firefox or Safari.

I really dislike all this "polarization" that is going on. Put very simply, Microsoft, Google, Sun, Apple, and also Mozilla, Apache, Redhat... you name them are all "just" solution providers. It is good that there is competition, because that forces these suppliers to add value, to differentiate, to innovate and ever improve quality of their services and products.

Sure, some of them become dominant, but does that make their products automatically suspicious?

Yes, people sometimes forget that Google's whole model is based on aggregating information from a variety of sources and deriving knowledge.

Those who say they're just a "solution provider" are not looking at the big picture. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but it is something that will be difficult to control. If we're not careful, the governments will step in (even more) and assist us in exercising control.

The service level agreements and privacy agreements are poorly understood by most until after they've been bit.

"Microsoft had good intentions too when they started integrating Internet Explorer in Windows." -- are you sure? I thought Microsoft's intentions were to kill off Netscape.

@Guarav it concerns me that there is a player in the market that controls the complete browsing experience: from offering a browser to offering services, hosting platforms and files that can be included in any site on the Internet.

Same would go for a bank that is able to track you cash money expenses. In my opinion it is rather worrying that there a players that can own the complete Internet chain from start to end. Not that this player would be evil by standard, however if the player would become evil, the consequences could have a big impact.

@Jonas

Chrome will be using the webkit engine, probably it will be like Safari and Android.

Well that was a fun 30 seconds. And lo, it's a browser that browses stuff. What's next up?

Thinks: Should I have used the "incognito window" for this?

@Mark it does not make their products suspicious, it makes them potentially dangerous for your privacy (and dangerous since you create a single point of failure (one provider) concerning the services you are using). Before you know it Google defines what cereal you should eat before you start connecting to the Internet (mildly exaggerating).

@Rick... I expect Google to anticipate what I want for breakfast, based on its deep knowledge of my breakfasting preferences and those of my friends and peers, rather than telling me what I should eat. It's a brekkie2.0 thing.