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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.

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...