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In recent month it feels more and more like a choke-hold from google. I can't help it, and it drives me to alternatives like bing, ff or skype. It feels like g
by eiji 16y ago
In recent month it feels more and more like a choke-hold from google. I can't help it, and it drives me to alternatives like bing, ff or skype.
It feels like google is preparing a big move in 2011.
It wants more data ... it always does. Gmail does not cut it anymore, and for that reason they push voice to get some numbers for a social grid.
I guess they learned with buzz that your email address-book has little to do with your social space, and people don't email their friends, they post status-updates, twitter something or send two lines via fb. So they buy themselfs into your phone habits.
I can't believe how often I see chrome ads while surfing the web. It's the only browser that does so, trying to build momentum for something.
Don't get me wrong, I love the fight, and it will help to make the skype(-ui) not look like crap for another 5 years.
I guess what I'm looking for is some innovation, not just another sales channel for something. Cheap is good, but sometimes it's just not enough.
- drivebyacct2 16y agoGoogle is good and makes good products, but they're too good at it, so you question their motives? How about a healthy dose of questioning their motives while enjoying the software that the provide? You offer no suggestions as to why, what, is going to happen when, and how. You're just waving your hands around it the air going "ooooooogabooooga". Google isn't innovating? Take a look at their 2010 to see what all they've been doing. 3 major releases of Chrome that make it the most technically impresive browser available, Android's further explosion, Chrome OS (literally just received a notificaiton from ChromeDeck running as a background app in Chrome). You're either not looking, or are looking with your eyes half closed. And an immediate downvote, cool!
- brown9-2 16y agoPerhaps those Chrome ads you see are simply Google filling holes in their ad inventory? (does this even happen to them?) For what its worth, IE9 and Opera both place banner ads on Reddit.
- martythemaniak 16y agoI read your incoherent rant several times and I still can't figure out what you're going on about.
- minalecs 16y agothis rant is ridiculous. Just don't use google then, why are you even talking about this. Take action and stop using google products, there are plenty of alternatives in every space that google is.