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Vexx · 2013-01-09, 19:12

Lots of assertions being thrown around without cites about usage numbers, power, influence.

As a general rule, monopolies aren't a good idea without extensive regulation (like electric utilities). People tend to use a product family out of laziness or wonderful integration. Microsoft has tried this for years - a lot of their products are mediocre but they integrate well. Google is trying to provide that sort of wonderous integration with better tools, that's why Microsoft is worried.

Are they good or evil? Well, that's the problem with a monopoly. It might be good this year but all it takes is a change in leadership. Google needs decent competition and regulation to keep it from snuffing out or absorbing competition (which is true of Microsoft and almost any other corporation).

kyp275 · 2013-01-09, 19:35

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Originally Posted by Gundamx

Google = SERN!

quick! to the phone microwave! and someone turn the 42" on!

SaintessHeart · 2013-01-09, 20:08

The world brain wouldn't work because as a computer system, it is WYSIWYG.

If it scans garbage books in, expect garbage output.

Ithekro · 2013-01-09, 20:19

So... in Google Brain, computer trolls you?

DonQuigleone · 2013-01-10, 08:07

@chrome: it is indeed now the most popular browser.

It is a fairly recent thing, I was as surprised as anyone else.

Kyero Fox · 2013-01-10, 08:20

The SECOND that lady said "Google can basicly hold the world hostage" I Just planted my face to my keyboard.....Really? ...oh god, Just stick to your gun control crap and let books be viewed world wide. Wait but terrorists can read our books!.. is pretty much what they are saying.

felix · 2013-01-10, 13:40

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Originally Posted by DonQuigleone

@chrome: it is indeed now the most popular browser.

It is a fairly recent thing, I was as surprised as anyone else.

The whole "best viewed in X" is not in fashion these days but just about every site that's built today is built for chrome first, so it's technically "best viewed in chrome." Chrome as a browser has been very good to developers. The tools are so good you could write an entire book on them, and they make all the older tools such as Firefox/Firebug look like they're from the stone age (going into IE's version of them is like traveling back to Win95). The development cycle is also pretty solid and has been adopted in one form or another by all other browser vendors.

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Originally Posted by Traece

So... Am I to understand that Google Chrome is now offered with every Microsoft computer instead of Internet Explorer?

FYI, because IE is such a total scrap bucket anyone using IE has been getting the "good enough to work" version for the longest time now. And you can thank IE for every site running around 30% slower because of all the "patching to work in IE" garbage that has had to be written. Expect in the future to see IE show very crappy plain page, while other browsers show shinny snappy pages, just because the gab is getting that wide. IE may be shipped with every windows box but it doesn't make much difference when it's turning into a situation of "trying to read pdfs with notepad" to make an analogy. People these days are also a lot more accepting of just having sites display differently depending on the device capabilities (or in this case the browsers inabilities), mostly due to advent of mobile.

synaesthetic · 2013-01-10, 19:35

I used Firefox up until recently. After Firefox 13, it started having serious issues with Flash Player and has had terrible stability problems. So I switched to Chrome, which doesn't have these issues.

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Vexx Obey the Darkly Cute ... Author Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ... Age: 66	Lots of assertions being thrown around without cites about usage numbers, power, influence. As a general rule, monopolies aren't a good idea without extensive regulation (like electric utilities). People tend to use a product family out of laziness or wonderful integration. Microsoft has tried this for years - a lot of their products are mediocre but they integrate well. Google is trying to provide that sort of wonderous integration with better tools, that's why Microsoft is worried. Are they good or evil? Well, that's the problem with a monopoly. It might be good this year but all it takes is a change in leadership. Google needs decent competition and regulation to keep it from snuffing out or absorbing competition (which is true of Microsoft and almost any other corporation). __________________ "It Really IS Rocket Science", Novel series rough drafts; vol. 1 thru vol. 3 complete Volume 4 in work, Visit the thread for short stories!

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SaintessHeart NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~ Join Date: Nov 2007 Age: 35	The world brain wouldn't work because as a computer system, it is WYSIWYG. If it scans garbage books in, expect garbage output. __________________ When three puppygirls named after pastries are on top of each other, it is called Eclair a'la menthe et Biscotti aux fraises avec beaucoup de Ricotta sur le dessus. Most of all, you have to be disciplined and you have to save, even if you hate our current financial system. Because if you don't save, then you're guaranteed to end up with nothing.

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Ithekro Gamilas Falls Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Republic of California Age: 46	So... in Google Brain, computer trolls you? __________________

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Kyero Fox Tastes Cloudy Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Snake Way Age: 35	The SECOND that lady said "Google can basicly hold the world hostage" I Just planted my face to my keyboard.....Really? ...oh god, Just stick to your gun control crap and let books be viewed world wide. Wait but terrorists can read our books!.. is pretty much what they are saying. __________________

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synaesthetic blinded by blood Author Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Oakland, CA Age: 40	I used Firefox up until recently. After Firefox 13, it started having serious issues with Flash Player and has had terrible stability problems. So I switched to Chrome, which doesn't have these issues. __________________ Indie science fiction author and all-around weirdo: Check out my original fiction here! Read an excerpt from my sci-fi novel Binary System!

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DonQuigleone Knight Errant Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Age: 35	@chrome: it is indeed now the most popular browser. It is a fairly recent thing, I was as surprised as anyone else.