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Firefox Creator No Longer Trusts Google

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the watching-the-watchmen dept.

watashi writes "Blake Ross the man whose scratched itch became the Firefox browser explains on his blog why he has a problem with Google's policy of promoting their own products over competitors' in search results. His main gripe is that the tips (e.g. "Want to share pictures? Try Google Picasa") result in an inability for other products (perhaps even Parakey?) to compete for the top slot on Google."

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  1. Re:Business by fimbulvetr · · Score: 0, Troll

    Like it was a god-damned epiphany to realize that some people may not want a huge browser with terribly slow speed, wretched memory bugs and horrible rendering attached to dying company.

  2. Re:Does he promote IE over Firefox? by Redlazer · · Score: 0, Troll
    What i dont partcularily like is how Google prevents Opera from functioning as intended in man of their services - Gmail being the initial that comes to mind.


    Im sure many of you would just say "Well, just switch to Firefox" but frankly, i cant stand that program. Regardless, i think its bullshit that Google has a browser sniffer that disables many basic features of Gmail, and continues to (seemingly) intentionally "break" Gmail for Opera users.

    Promoting their own software is perfectly normal - what sane company wouldnt promote themselves over their own venues? Thats like a TV channel not advertising itself.

    And my own revision of the kettle analogy:

    "Kettle, this is my friend Pot."
    "Hey Kettle."
    "Hey Pot."
    {whisper} "Hey, is it just me, or is that guy black?"

    Too funny to ignore. I hope no one labels me a racist.

    -Red

    --
    Guns don't kill people, "with glowing hearts" kills people.
  3. Proof that Google ain't what it used to be. by HycoWhit · · Score: 1, Troll

    I got all the proof I needed the other day... Did a quick search for the pictures that got Ms. Neveda in trouble. Google came up with family friendly versions and stock publicity photos. Had to visit Yahoo to find the money shots.

    Seriously though--it isn't hard to change one's home page. Back in the day Yahoo.com was everybody's search engine of choice. Then AltaVista came on the seem and there were mass changes to the home page settings in browsers across the country. Google came along and became #1 in a short period of time. But as fast as Google became #1--the next greatest thing can take that top spot.