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Any thoughts on why Google is doing this other than a perverse will to take over the entire Internet? My thought is that they're hoping this will encourage mor
by WillyF 16y ago
Any thoughts on why Google is doing this other than a perverse will to take over the entire Internet?
My thought is that they're hoping this will encourage more text instead of images as text. That helps them index more information and collect more data on the whole web.
- Perceval 16y agoMicrosoft (and Apple) did a similar thing back in 1996–7 with "core fonts for the web" in which they tried to push a standard pack of fonts out to everyone so that web designers could assume that end users would have certain key fonts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web It's not some big conspiracy, it's about making the web easier to use, easier to read, and easier to design.
- kuahyeow 16y agoThat and making it easier for developers to make better websites encourages more usage of the internet . TypeKit helped build part of this (http://code.google.com/apis/webfonts/docs/webfont_loader.html http://code.google.com/apis/webfonts/docs/webfont_loader.htm...), so read what you can there.