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> This seems very un-Googley to me. And the bundling deals Chrome had with Skype and has with Adobe seem "Googley" to you? I really doubt Google would be doin
by bzbarsky 15y ago
> This seems very un-Googley to me.
And the bundling deals Chrome had with Skype and has with Adobe seem "Googley" to you?
I really doubt Google would be doing the grey-hat SEO thing myself, but mostly because they have more effective (if more expensive) ways to push Chrome that they've been using already, not because I think Google is incapable of behaving in a completely scummy way. The fact that installing Skype for a while (until Microsoft bought it) defaulted to installing Chrome and making it your default browser pretty much sums up what you can expect out of "Googley" nowadays.
- bzbarsky 15y agoUpdate: The search team's response to this shows that thinking of "Google" as a monolithic entity with a monolithic "Googley" attitude or a monolithic "evil" attitude is just wrong, unsurprisingly. Kudos to the search folks; I remain of the opinion that the Chrome marketing folks are fully capable of scummy behavior as desired.
- runn1ng 15y agoAll right, that's true. Google Toolbar for IE was also "bundled" similarilly to some software as long as I remember, and the behaviour of Google Updater on Windows is also almost like crapware. You are probably right.