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Google's 'War' With Microsoft is a Shell Game
The tech world is atwitter: Google just announced a new operating system, which will compete with Microsoft Windows. The only problem? It's not a new operating system, and it doesn't compete with Microsoft Windows. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Thomas Lord: Uh, Dave is kind of full of shit on that one. We'll understand the details of the new Google OS better... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Is Google Killing Firefox?
Google wants to be your Web browser, not just your search engine, which is why it unveiled Chrome last fall, a rival to Firefox. Now we hear Google's ready to hit Firefox in the pocketbook. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Colander: Why don't they just eat Firefox instead of murdering it and wasting it. I use Chrome but probably everybody uses... 11 Responses | Other threads
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Google Chrome
Marissa Mayer Chrome-plates the Nasdaq
If you don't believe Google should buy a few 30-second TV spots to hawk its Chrome browser, watch Google's VP of Search Products and User Experience try to explain Chrome to the semitechnical viewers at CNBC. The whole thing falls apart into a meandering talk about faster JavaScript rendering, overlaid with a chart of Google's waffling stock price — the real reason Mayer is on CNBC. I doubt investors changed their GOOG valuations based on Mayer's promise that in the future, crashing one tab in their browser won't take down the whole thing. -
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Chrome's shine dulls as Google browser usage falls
While Google's new browser Chrome got lots of attention, it hasn't amassed many users. Net Applications tracks browser share across 40,000 sites, and Chrome has at best won around one percent of market share, with usage slipping from 0.85 percent to only 0.77 percent since last week. But hey, it's probably still beating Opera. [ComputerWorld] (Image by Miles Goodhew)
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By Jackson WestComment by macbeach: Google: Put a few of your geniuses on a middleware API that splits the differences between Windows, Linux and... 6 Responses | Other threads
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great moments in pr
Google Chrome comic goes for $363 on eBay
Bidding for an Australian's copy of Google's comic-book press release on its new Chrome browser closed after 17 bids at AU $454.99, or approximately $363. If all proceeds weren't being donated to charity, we'd have a truly disturbing waste of money on our hands here, especially considering the Chrome presser isn't even the best "Google" comic available on the auction site.
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Comment by DanLar75: $400? Wouldn't even buy the actual source code for that! more » | Other threads
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Google Chrome market share tops Opera, latest Internet Explorer beta version
Users of Google's Chrome browser account for about 1 percent of the market, reports Net Applications, a market researcher. European browser-maker Opera — which you might have heard had it agreed to make the iPhone's browser, but it didn't, so you haven't — claims 0.74 percent of all users. Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates the market, but its latest version, Internet Explorer 8 beta 2, which was released around the same time as Chrome, owns only a third as much market share, around 0.34 percent. [PaidContent] -
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WilliamMarkFelt
Marc Andreessen invented the friggin' Netscape browser. Have you heard of it? He also wants you to know that he's the idea guy who shifted your computing paradigm by getting Netscape to develop webtop software. So while gabbing at the Churchill Club, Andreessen slyly noted the realization of his ideas. By Google. Today's featured commenter, WilliamMarkFelt, explains the thing about ideas: More » -
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Where did Google rip off its Chrome icon?
On Blogoscoped, obsessive Google watcher Philipp Lenssen has posted an exhaustive list of "Google Chrome Tips and Pointers." Go there if you are, for example, a freeloading jerk who wants to learn how to install ad blockers in Chrome. But I think the best part of the FAQ is the question Lenssen raises about where the logo came from. Voice your preferred theory in our poll: More »
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Comment by FeldMUG: Looks like a negative of a Skynet eye assimilating Vista or Hal 9000 replacing Windows 2000. Freudian slip? 1 Responses | Other threads
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browser wars
Marc Andreessen blesses Google's browser
Google Chrome has the potential to replace the Windows desktop — and kill Adobe's Flash for extra points. So said Marc Andreessen, one of the programmers behind the world-changing Mosaic browser. He'd long ago envisioned a future where instead of running applications from a desktop operating system, computer users would get everything from servers on a network. It wasn't his original idea, but Andreessen pushed Netscape developers to replace the desktop with a "webtop." The result, Constellation, was bloated and slow. Ten years later, Andreessen told a small crowd at the Churchill Club in Palo Alto that Google is finishing his work: More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by WilliamMarkFelt: I have been a great admirer of Andreesen since the mid 90's. He is no doubt one of the father's... 2 Responses | Other threads
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great moments in journalism
Browser coder Jamie Zawinski is no longer Internet famous
The media frenzy earlier this week over Google's Chrome Web browser was so over the top that I wondered: How far did reporters go questing for commentary, for insight, for historical context? How many of them chased down Jamie Zawinski, the Netscape engineer turned beer-peddling South-of-Market nightclub owner, who played a critical role in making the Netscape browser open source — a move which, years later, made Google's browser possible? So I IM'd him: "What is the absolute worst media inquiry you've gotten about Google Chrome this week?" More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Dan Dickinson: Owen, do you want to connect the logic on how Mozilla going open source has anything to do with Chrome... 2 Responses | Other threads
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mashups
Remix of Google's Chrome comic
Those crazy Olds at Condé Nast's Portfolio have stripped down and remixed Scott McCloud's comic-book introduction to Google's Chrome browser. Best part is where they mock the developers-only techspeak that bogged down the original.
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By Paul BoutinComment by Michael Arrington: Little known fact: that fish presented at my last TC party. more » | Other threads
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Terms of Disservice
Google backtracks on Chrome's copyright clause
Web wonks got into a tizzy over a clause buried in the terms of service for the new Chrome browser from Google which gave the search engine rights over all content created with the software. An insidious conspiracy to abuse copyrights! All your data is belong to Google! Not so much. Google's legal eagles, under the direction of general counsel Kent Walker, were just really lazy. They copied and pasted the text from other Google legalese without thinking. Now Google will be moving to strike the clause from the record. Just goes to show we aren't the only ones who don't read the terms of service — Google's lawyers can't be bothered, either.
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By Jackson WestComment by TheGlobalMind: I don't really believe the terms would have been enforceable regardless of it's presense in the ToS. I can't transfer copyright... more » | Other threads
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superficial
Is my Google Chrome alter ego hot or not?
The Googlers who built the Chrome browser hired popular cartoonist Scott McCloud to illustrate their white paper on Chrome's technical architecture and design process. But let's be honest: They also bought Scott McCloud versions of themselves all over the Internet. Reader theodp matched up McCloud's illos of the Chrome team to the real photos of them from Wired's inside-access article. Above: software engineer Ben Goodger. The rest: More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by skyscraper143: Ooh, Darin Fisher is cute! Look at that toned left arm; he must use emacs. more » | Other threads
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Terms of Disservice
The 5 most laughable terms of service on the Net
Nobody reads terms of service agreements, those legal documents new users have to click a box to say they've read. And the truth is, they hardly matter to anybody but the cyber-rights-now crowd who get worked up by articles on Boing Boing, and the paranoid lawyers at large Web companies who want to avoid money-fishing lawsuits. But sometimes they go far beyond protecting corporate interests into la-la land. Did you know that when you download Google's new Chrome browser, you agree that any "content" you "submit, post or display" using the service — whether you own its copyright or not — gives Google a "perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute" it? Google's ambitions for Chrome are even larger than we thought; by the letter of this license, Google will own all information that flows through its browser. But Chrome's terms of service are just the latest in a long line of ludicrous legalese. More » -
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Firefox, Chrome already fighting over who's faster
The real browser war isn't between Microsoft and anyone. It's between Firefox and Google Chrome, jostling to become the aftermarket browser of choice. Yesterday, a Google engineer assured News.com that the company's new open-source browser processes webpages much faster than Mozilla Firefox — "Many times faster. I guarantee you." Mozilla engineers released their own test results that show Firefox with a slight performance edge. But the latest test, run independently by News.com, skews the other way. More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by SFJoe: Rendering HTML isn't at issue. Processing javascript is what will separate browsers. The growth in the use of ajax means... 1 Responses | Other threads
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great moments in journalism
How Wired kept Google's browser secret
Magazines aren't in the business of breaking news. But had Google PR not inadvertently leaked word of its Google Chrome Web browser, Steven Levy's feature in Wired's forthcoming October issue might have been both the first and last word on the project. It required the Faustian bargain typical of fly-on-the-wall features: Get deep inside the company, in exchange for letting the subject dictate the timing of the story. But this story was trickier than most, since Chrome was still a secret when the issue was under production. Normally, dozens of eyes would fall on the story. How did a magazine's labor-heavy business model intersect with Google's maniacal obsession with secrecy? This was, in some ways, the exact opposite of last year's cover story on "radical transparency." Bob Cohn, Wired's executive editor, explained to Valleywag how they pulled it off: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Drunken Economist: Actually, the best way to keep a secret in the bay area is to submit a story to BoingBoing and... 1 Responses | Other threads
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cloud computing
Google's Chrome dream — a mainframe-era computing monopoly
"I think operating systems are kind of an old way to think of the world," Google cofounder Sergey Brin told a klatsch of reporters after the Mountain View ad agency's song-and-dance routine to announce its new browser, Chrome. Brin is a little older than me, which I find surprising — not because I'm so old, but because even I remember the days before there really was a personal computer on every desk (and on every lap, and in every pocket). What was there? More »
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By Jackson WestComment by grrgle: Well yeah but you are talking about a very distant horizon. Gmail's recent pukes and Amazon's ECC outages are... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Google Chrome
What took Google so long to build a browser?
Blogger Jason Kottke has been asking for a Google browser for seven years. So, too, have Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In 2001, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told them the company wasn't ready to take on Microsoft in a full-fledged browser war, Steven Levy reported in his Wired feature on Google's new browser, "Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web." But I don't think Google's project is really about taking on Microsoft. It's about Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, in a feud that stretches back almost two years. More » -
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So Google launched a browser, did you hear? Well you should have by now considering that Google slipped up and sent the promotional comic book about the project early. Today's featured commenter, giddieup, knows how the breakdown in communication occured: More » -
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Best part of Wired's Chrome feature: Sergey pets the snake
In the October issue of Wired, Steven Levy has delivered a formulaic feature on the making of Google's Chrome browser. It's just like those jargony trade-publication writeups you've read ad nauseam — but with the value-add of meeting recaps. One line makes the whole thing worth it, however, is engineer Pam Greene's retelling of a demo by colleague Darin Fisher to Sergey Brin : "Sergey was bouncing on one of those exercise balls, watching Darin give a demo, and petting the snake," according to Pam Greene, an engineer on the project. Oh, wait — it was a stuffed snake. No, that doesn't make it any better. (Illustration of Greene by Scott McCloud)
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By Owen ThomasComment by notyoutool: Speaking of petting the snake, I'm surprised no VW commenters have mentioned the feature custom-made for Trekkie Monster, "Incognito Mode":... more » | Other threads
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Walt Mossberg pans Google's Chrome browser
With Chrome, Google is trying to reinvent Web browsing. What's that old saying about not fixing it if it ain't broke? Walt Mossberg, the Wall Street Journal's make-or-break gadget reviewer, has played with Chrome for a week. His conclusion: the browser has "promise" — which, if you're familiar with Mossbergspeak, means he thinks it sucks, but he's willing to review the next version in a year. The harshest part: "Despite Google’s claims that Chrome is fast, it was notably slower in my tests at the common task of launching Web pages than either Firefox or Safari."
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By Owen ThomasComment by emnem: Google is AOL all over again; the only difference is AOL started off as a walled garden, while Google is... 5 Responses | Other threads
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we read twitter so you don't have to
Google Chrome already known worldwide in July
Forget the klutzy announcement-by-comic-book of Google Chrome, Google's new Web browser — this thing was the worst-kept secret in the Valley and beyond. Joshua Schachter notes that Alberto Lumbreras, an R&D engineer at Telefonica, Twittered about Google Chrome in July — but no one noticed because he called it a "navegador" instead of a "browser." The news made it to China late last month. And the head of PR for Google's Android project spilled the beans over tapas last Friday. That, too, made it to Twitter.
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By Owen ThomasComment by revmatty: No Mac? I'll pay attention to Chrome when I can actually use it. more » | Other threads
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Google Chrome
How Google's browser got leaked
Hilarious! Google executive Sundar Pichai blamed the mailroom for leaking word of Google Chrome, the search giant's new Web browser. Philipp Lenssen, a blogger based in Germany, got a comic book about the browser delivered Monday, a day before Google had planned to launch Chrome. Put two and two together: Someone in Mountain View forgot that Labor Day is not observed worldwide.
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By Owen ThomasComment by giddieup: that is what you get for not hiring phd's in the mailroom. 1 Responses | Other threads
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Google Chrome
Google's browser comic kind of sucks
Cartoonist Scott McCloud's 1993 graphic non-fiction book, Understanding Comics, was a breakthrough piece of work. It explained the complex insides of comics writing and illustration in a way that was engaging and understandable to outsiders and fans, not writers and illustrators. By contrast, McCloud's marketing collateral for Google's Chrome browser is a crippled, half-assed effort. More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by sahaj: not sure about the amount of suckiness. but, will it get the job done? ie, inform people? get marketshare... more » | Other threads
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Google Chrome
First browser screenshots from Google
They've yanked the video, so for now you'll have to settle for these screenshots of Google's forthcoming Chrome browser. No Mac version yet, hmph.
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By Paul BoutinComment by Ted Dziuba: unimpressed. just another browser to support as a web developer. fuck. 5 Responses | Other threads
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Google Chrome
Google launches browser, comic strip
You can't download the new Google Chrome browser yet. But you can read about it in this comic strip for which Google hired Scott McCloud, author of the nerd classic Understanding Comics, to turn geeky Googlers like open-source evangelist Chris DiBona into comic-book heroes. I guess I'm not supposed to ask why the logo for Chrome looks like a primary-colored plastic toy, but here's a rundown of the most outstanding features Google promises: More »
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