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Firefox Creator No Longer Trusts Google
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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dumbass i guess you forgot their "do no evil" policy.
I haven't heard the entire story, but there is a LARGE amount of controversy in the planning/development departments about how "fair" to be the market. Some of the managers want to be more corporate with the Google cause. Most of the developers want to keep it as it has been: fair.
The developers *know* that they can come out with the best products out there--a mixture of "something that works" and "something new"--two "mottos" that I hear a lot, even in my department. So, they can put out the best product, and they can put it side-by-side with competitors, and it is no question what the end-user will pick. Google, of course!
We have these managers who have no trust in the "lower downs," and the result is this. Trying to keep possible competition out even when we are the best. I believe that this is a deep flaw, possibly the hamartia that could bring us down. After thirty years working at Barclays, I will tell you this. I do not like to see how things are going.
Blake Ross recently took a payment of nearly $100,000 USD from "The Independent Institute", a well known lobbyist firm that has represented both Enron, and Microsoft. This article is merely Blake Ross shedding his credibility prior to changing Firefox's default search to MSN.com, and a substantive reason for us to demand that he step down from the Firefox board.
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.
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.
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.