I wont lie, I am a Google fan boy. I’m wearing a Google tshirt right now. But today I hate Google, and you want know why, well I’ll tell you, GOOGLE CHROME. I hate Chrome for so many reason, but most importantly, it’s good, real good.
Google’s control over the internet has been going on for some time. They started off by providing us the best search engine. They then moved on to providing a great medium for pay per click advertising. To top it all off, they gave us quality analytic software. Best of all they gave us these services for free (well the ad’s cost money but only if people interact).
With all this great “free” software it was only a matter of time before people started wondering “what is the catch?”. Lets think about this, the same company you advertise with is the also the same company you store your websites data with. It would be like if your work not only paid you but knew exactly how you spent your money, down to the penny. Not something you’d be too keen on, now is it. With these features Google is able to see how people get to our websites, how much it cost us to get them there and finaly what our user base does when they get there. That is a lot of power from free tools.
Welcome Googles latest hot web product, from the Google labs. Google Chrome is a fast and secure web browser designed to compete with the likes of, Internet Explorer and Firefox. This would be like instead of your company paying you, and then watching how you spend your money. They now have hired you a personal assitant, who goes with you every where you go. Now they not only know how much you get paid, and how you spent it, but… what you do when your are not spending it. And the worst part about it all is, they are nice about it.
After all Google chrome is fantastic, I’m typing this blog post using it. It’s fast, it’s clean and well from what I can tell its secure. So the question is do we just accept our fate and use Google’s products because they give us what we need or do we say this is a little to much…
After all if microsoft offered the best search engine, the best online advertisement platform, the best browser and the best operating system, wouldn’t MAC users be staging bombings? Wouldn’t we all be saying this needs to stop? But that is exactly it, Google isn’t Microsoft. Google is cool, Google doesn’t do things that piss us off, even if it means making less revenue. Its that layed back approach that makes it so easy to hand over every piece of information about your websites, about your ad’s and now your browsing habits.
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