Tag: chrome

Can you simply avoid anti-trust issues by paying a competitor to stay in business?

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Firefox’s sale of their search box, purchased by Google for three years and one billion dollars (give or take) has to be driven by something, especially as it’s three times what they were paying before. They’ve left behind “do no evil” so until I read otherwise, I’ll go with MG Siegler’s answer that they’re ensuring Firefox doesn’t damage their business by (a) going to Bing, or (b) going away and leaving Chrome as the dominant web browser… and Google open to Anti-Trust issues.

Does Google Chome OS redefine our computing needs?

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So the dust settles on the details on Chrome OS and everyone can spend the next few months debating Google’s strategy. Unlike other Bay Area companies, Google has been known to get it wrong, so just because they are doing something, it doesn’t meant that they will make a success of it. With Chrome OS they’re making the biggest play to cloud computing yet. By cloud computing they actually mean “we’ll be your hard drive that you can connect to wherever you are in the world.” Yes Google have brought us full circle back to the days of mainframes Dec52’s