Ok, so Google chrome has been released for nearly a month now, and I have to say, I don’t like it.
It may be intuitive and it may help you refine your searches and it’ll buy you a newspaper in the morning and make you chicken soup when you’re ill but I just don’t like the feel of it!
For a long time, myself and many others haven’t fully trusted Google. Google has gotten too big and is running unchecked.
I feel that this is just a way to push Firefox out of the way. Google couldn’t outright buy Firefox as it’s not for sale in the first place. So if you can’t attack your enemies directly - then hug them to death! Google has always supported firefox and probably on the face of it always will.
But I feel the plans for Google chrome are Google sticking their toe in their first step to world domination, If we’re not careful in 15 years time we will be using google computers synchronised with our google phones to catch the google bus/train on our way to whichever business we work for that is has been bought out by google and then when we get home eating our google pizzas whilst watching our google tvs!
Google are doing a brilliant PR job at the moment, getting bigger and bigger, but because it was started by a couple of nice guys in a garage in california we don’t seem to mind.
Anyway, a bit ranty I know but back to chrome, I hope it doesn’t take over and push out firefox, and I don’t think it will so at the moment my views on google chrome - just another browser I have to validate for!
There is an interesting debate on this matter on the randa clay blog
