Comments on: Google Is Whining Yet Again http://pthree.org/2006/05/02/google-is-whining-yet-again/ Linux. GNU. Freedom. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:13:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-almost-rc-9997 hourly 1 By: Matthew Kimber http://pthree.org/2006/05/02/google-is-whining-yet-again/#comment-427 Matthew Kimber Tue, 16 May 2006 01:39:39 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2006/05/02/google-is-whining-yet-again/#comment-427 I think Google is mostly worried about those users who don't have the ability/knowledge to change out the search engine. You know, like our parents and our grandparents. I would say that 80% of the people in my workplace use the default homepage (msn.com) as well as the associated search engine. It's sick I know, but they don't know any better. I think Google is mostly worried about those users who don’t have the ability/knowledge to change out the search engine. You know, like our parents and our grandparents. I would say that 80% of the people in my workplace use the default homepage (msn.com) as well as the associated search engine. It’s sick I know, but they don’t know any better.

]]> By: Joey Day http://pthree.org/2006/05/02/google-is-whining-yet-again/#comment-271 Joey Day Tue, 02 May 2006 23:43:20 +0000 http://www.pthree.org/2006/05/02/google-is-whining-yet-again/#comment-271 I just installed IE7 so I feel qualified to weigh in on this discussion. I do agree with you that Google is just whining. IE7 uses a new thing they call OpenSearch that allows the user to download little search modules for just about any search engine on the planet. It's a near-exact clone of the MyCroft system used in Firefox and other browsers. The funniest thing is Mozilla has already announced support for OpenSearch in the upcoming Firefox 2, and Firefox 2 will probably beat IE7 to production. Anyway, the first thing I did when I installed IE7 was go find the OpenSearch module for Google. It took me about twenty seconds, tops. So that's why I agree Google is whining unnecessarily here. Microsoft certainly isn't pushing Google out of the search business. Quite far from it, in fact. Microsoft has tried to make it as easy as possible to switch search engines (short of including Google among the default choices). I just installed IE7 so I feel qualified to weigh in on this discussion. I do agree with you that Google is just whining.

IE7 uses a new thing they call OpenSearch that allows the user to download little search modules for just about any search engine on the planet. It’s a near-exact clone of the MyCroft system used in Firefox and other browsers. The funniest thing is Mozilla has already announced support for OpenSearch in the upcoming Firefox 2, and Firefox 2 will probably beat IE7 to production.

Anyway, the first thing I did when I installed IE7 was go find the OpenSearch module for Google. It took me about twenty seconds, tops. So that’s why I agree Google is whining unnecessarily here. Microsoft certainly isn’t pushing Google out of the search business. Quite far from it, in fact. Microsoft has tried to make it as easy as possible to switch search engines (short of including Google among the default choices).

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