pimpdave wrote:Oh, well I think it's a great idea.
I can't wait to use it. I was a beta tester on gmail, and I love their program. Google can be the new Microsoft, for all I care. Plus, they're open-source, which, from the outset, subverts the kind of corporate espionage upon which Microsoft made it's fortune.
We (anyone with a gmail account) are all beta testers of gmail, go have a look now it is still in beta, and always will be. Google never finish software. Its like a big joke, everything they do they play with it till the team gets bored and wants to try somethign else and release it with the beta tag so they can avoid any comeback for releasing an unfinished product, and every cupcake out there sups it and spouts open source rhetoric about how Googles half baked cake is so great. Well not me.
Google does good searching. Well OK, let me rephrase that. Google has invested masses of time and money into ensuring thetop X results are the most relevant to the most people. This is a great thing and "I'm feeling lucky" works 90% of the time, brilliant, but as someone pointed out somewhere get past page 2 and its laughable. Start a new website competing in an existing market and you'll get nada help from the big G, unless you pay of course, which still won't really help.
So Google chrome. Balls. Its just Firefox rebranded more or less. Notice the "Its all open source so others can learn from what we did like we learnt from _____" Oh yeah from Mozilla, sure. FF3 has its own problems, the ridiculously aggresive caching for one, but its true open source, not we develop it and here you can look at the source Google style open source, so the updates come thick and fast and the software gets better and better rather than reaching a beta level and then stagnating while the 'Chrome' team go and do Google Bearings BETA (of course) or whatever the next toy is.
Search with Google, enjoy the topical changes to the logo image, and use decent software to do it instaed of lauding Google's permabeta model. It sucks.
