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And now they have satellites?

255762 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:28:00 GMT

Google is buying satellites. I don't know about you, but I'm worried. It already has pictures of the pool in your back garden and now it plans to launch at least 16 satellites, which must be as many as we have. This can't be good.

There are people in this office who do nothing much all day, but look at Google Earth and Google Street View (the rest are, of course, playing scrabble). They says things like "oh look another pool". This problem is starting to get out of hand.

Ostensibly according to the Financial Times today Google is getting invovled in this satellite project to help people in people in Africa. I'm not sure why. They don't have pools, they don't even have any water. I could be wrong about the first bit.

But seriously Google wants to give them internet access and has joined forces with John Malone, the cable television magnate, and HSBC to set up something called O3b Networks. That sounds like a cabal and I'm now firmly of the opinion that Google has proved its large bully corporation credentials by throwing its weight about like Microsoft used to do is up to no good. Satellites never spell good stuff. Next thing you know Google is backing George Bush III in his plan to build a new generation of defence satellites it has nicked "the death stars" ("the star wars missile defence system was so old hat," Eric Schmidt told reporters).

Before you know it, Google will have a whole website dedicated to watching African people do stuff. Loads of different kind of stuff. As an incidental benefit some of them might be able to access the internet and realise what Google has done to them.

Larry Alder, product manager in Google’s alternative access group, said the project could bring the cost of bandwidth in such markets down by 95 per cent. “This really fits into Google’s mission [to extend internet use] around the developing world,” he said.

Well that's his story and he seems to be sticking to it.

Chrome is going to be one of those ironies

255762 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:13:00 GMT

Google chief executive officer Eric Schmidt has admitted that the decision to launch its Chrome browser is a defensive one in its battle with Microsoft's and Internet Explorer. The irony is that it is likely to be Firefox, like Netscape before it, that will go down in flames.

In an interview with the FT today Schmidt of course said all the stuff about Chrome being a browser that was designed to make the web more secure/stable/faster/stronger et cet, but he also said that "there is a defensive component", which is of course designed to grab market share from Microsoft and Internet Explorer.

Its got a long way to go, but with Google's ever expanding digital presence it will likely fast make in-roads into the browser share of rivals. The latest Nielsen figures show that IE has75% market share followed by Mozilla's Firefox with 12%.

However, the figure for Microsoft is actually higher as AOL has an 8% UK share and its browser is just a version of the IE browser called AOL Explorer.

After that it is a single digit bun fight. The most surprising thing is that people still use that awful BT Yahoo browser, which has a 4% market share. I imagine it is glued to their PCs and if you try to remove it everything falls apart. We've all been there.

After that its Opera which has so little market share its users could probably get together in Starbucks (okay maybe a large'ish one). I remember downloading Opera and enthusing about it for a whole ten minutes. It might have longer, say 20 minutes, before moving on.

See that's what I'm talking about people are so shallow and it seems to me that the first of those people to switch to Chrome will be Firefox users - who tend to be early adopters and geeks. I've had a little play with Chrome like the rest of the herd and as reported everywhere it is fast. Really speedy like a Mini Cooper. Has anyone switched already? I'm guessing it is too early.

The question is when will Chrome really start to come into play? I'm pretty sure, and am betting Google is also, that this will be when its mobile platform takes off (I wanted some line here about Paranoid Android, but couldn't seem to think of one...).

This seems to be borne by Lehman Brothers analyst Douglas Anmuth wrote in a note that he sees Chrome's biggest benefit possibly coming on mobile devices if Google bundles Chrome into Android and gains distribution on other devices.

"We believe the simplicity and open-source nature of Chrome is well-suited to the mobile environment."

And why wouldn't it? Chrome mobile makes so much sense, it is after all the portable desktop that is the desktop of tomorrow...or some such crappola.

He is also predicts that Google will catch Chrome in two years, which could mean there is little future for the Mozilla browser beyond the fringes, which is a shame building up a market it has as a very decent alternative to those who do no want to use Microsoft's IE.

Nielsen Online's Rank Browser UK Unique Audience % Share of Unique Audience

1 Internet Explorer 75%
2 Mozilla 12%
3 AOL Explorer 8%
4 Yahoo! Browser 4%
5 Opera Internet Browser 0.33%
6 MSN Explorer Browser 0.22%
7 Flock 0.04%
8 Avant Browser 0.03%
9 Safari 0.03%
10 SlimBrowser 0.03%

Google Chrome and relevant content...

1726050 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:14:34 GMT

With the introduction of the 'Omnibar' in Google's new browser, and it's ability to display historical web pages based on keywords typed as opposed to just URLs, it would seem that well written and relevant content is more important than ever. And given the proliferation of garbage on the internet I for one welcome that with unbridaled joy.

Does anyone else see other benefits from this new kid on the block?

Browser Wars

1649191 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:51:00 GMT

Google are launching their new rival to Microsoft's Internet Explorer today (called Chrome - logo below) following an accidental (yeah right) leak of a 38 page 'comic book' style press release to several European based journalists (someone apparently "hit send a bit early" according to key sources at Google.

Of course we are all convinced by that, not least for the fact that it was a public holiday in the US yesterday and what better time to launch when news is thin on the ground and you can guarantee mass exposure in the tech space - not that I'm cynical or anything, you understand). Anyway, the new open source browser will be available in beta to around 100 countries Tuesday morning (US time).

Not only is it free to download but Google claim it's faster, more stable and more secure than rivals Explorer (used by around 75% of web surfers), Mozilla (the next biggest alternative and which also follows the open source ideology adopted by Google), Opera or Safari. Chrome has also been specifically designed for the needs and requirements of the next generation Web 2.0 users who demand more usage of video, games, chat and internet banking.

But don't expect Microsoft to be surrender monkeys... it's likely to simply escalate the intense rivalry between the two organisations. The latest incarnation of IE (version 8) was launched as a test version just last week (hmmm, funny that) with a whole host of new features (basically more privacy and user control features) which Microsoft claim are the equal of (if not better than) what's on offer via Chrome. Well, they would, wouldn't they ?

Let battle commence...