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There are also instances in which Google has played not particularly fairly—releasing Chrome-only products such as Google Earth that require NaCl, for example.
by pcwalton 10y ago
There are also instances in which Google has played not particularly fairly—releasing Chrome-only products such as Google Earth that require NaCl, for example.
- beagle3 10y agoGoogle are a business, not saints, and they do a lot of things that align with their interests and against the interests of their customers. However, I think this is not comparable to what Microsoft did in the OS business (the story I told, BeOS, DR-DOS, IE Bundling) -- an apt comparison would be if the Google Search Engine had been Chrome only, or mobile Googling was Android only. Google Earth is a niche product - I don't see how this (or any other less-than-fair Google practice I've ever heard of) can be considered abusing one's monopoly in any way.
- pc2g4d 10y agoOnly allowing redirects to be seen by Google Analytics, no competing analytics tools.
- beagle3 10y agoCan you elaborate?
- pc2g4d 10y agoMy apologies, I stated that wrong. I had thought I remembered there being an issue with Google's "Secure Search" making search keywords unavailable to websites (which it did) but that Google Analytics had a Google-specific way around that. But I can't find documentation for that, so it was probably me misunderstanding things.