Amazon's tablet is a great thing for Google because more people can browse the Web using a mobile device. It also shows that Android is an open platform and anyone can build a successful product using Android's code. As long as Amazon doesn't create new APIs and all Android apps run well on the tablet, it's not a bad thing for Google.
- Ionut
"Facebook is the number two search engine in Latin America, barely edging out Microsoft Sites by about 12 million searches (525 million to 513 million)." Huh?
- Ionut
Huh. Turn on "Suggested Sites" and IE8 sends your queries, surfing data, IP address and clicks to MSFT. Read http://www.microsoft.com/windows... closely.
I couldn't figure out how they show the suggested sites when you visit https://ieonline.microsoft.com/ . They don't use cookies or user accounts.
- Ionut
There are certain scenarios that require user data to be sent in order to make the user experience better, as suggested by http://tinyurl.com/3yue6c. Which if you read closely, discloses that Google collects exactly the same information if the user installs Google Toolbar and opts in particular features.
- Franci Penov
Hi, Franci Penov! Remind me what part of MSFT you work at? I guess I thought that Google's disclosure at http://bit.ly/2Jiwrg with the big red capital letters and disclosure in the first sentence was more clear than MSFT's disclosure, which was buried deep in the IE8 privacy page.
- Matt Cutts
9 processes are loaded with the browser in Windows (No doubt toolbar type tracking processes). You can turn them off but it's not as easy or obvious as recent efforts by Google and Yahoo to opt out.
- Charlie Anzman
hmm.. well you can find out this much information about visitors to your websites and blogs too. But if MSFT finds out this info, they're blasted?
- Imran Hussain
from feedalizr
Matt, I work on Windows Live Toolbar. :-) I have not seen the big red letter warning you point to, as I have not installed Google Toolbar (exactly because of the product I work on). But you could've just mention that you have a problem with the disclosure clarity. I'll make sure your feedback gets to the IE guys.
- Franci Penov
http://tinyurl.com/6q9vou - Chrome Privacy Policy. Not as obvious as Google Toolbar big red letter warning; I personally had to dig a little bit around before I found it. I'd say about as clear and discoverable as IE8 Privacy policy you complained about. :-)
- Franci Penov
Franci Penov, thanks for passing on my feedback to the IE guys. I don't think Google Chrome has anything to hide (e.g. it doesn't send your browsing info to Google as you surf the web). In fact, I just did a separate write-up on the communication between Chrome and Google. Read it at http://bit.ly/2jnBYZ
- Matt Cutts
Imran, I think it's fair to point out that IE8 gives users virtually no disclosure that their wholesale surfing data (including queries done on other search engines) will be sent to Microsoft if they turn on this innocent-sounding feature.
- Matt Cutts
@mattcutts the Google reputation manager? :)
- Mark Edmondson
"German home-owners who have chosen to opt out of Google's Street View service appear to have become the unsuspecting victims of anti-privacy vandals." Anti-privacy vandals?
- Ionut
"Google appears close to buying the trophy 111 Eighth Ave. building, one of the largest buildings in Manhattan. The price is rumored to be tantalizingly close to $2 billion."
- Ionut
"The GALAXY S has been a phenomenal success in the global smart phone market, recording global sales of over 5 million units including more than 2 million units in the United States and more than 1 million units in Korea. "
- Ionut
This is so ironic: "The best attack on pirates is to make their work more difficult and expensive, while simultaneously making the legal path to products straightforward, easy, and fast."
- Ionut
Comparing Blogger to Wordpress... I'd say that's about right.
- Kevin Mohr
I think this feature is more valuable for Blogger users than Google Analytics, which is clunky, has tons of features and doesn't update in real-time,
- Ionut
:-( anyone know? I've only seen it missing in comments view when the item was non-expanded but not like this.
- immaterial
If you use "mark all as read", Reader sets a flag so that all the posts received before a certain date are flagged as read. That's why you won't see "keep unread" for those posts. It's a technical limitation.
- Ionut
oh, thankyou :-) that would explain it
- immaterial
A new menu next to locations and a link to the "places" page. An option to narrow by distance for local search.
- Ionut
New icons for businesses and places, maybe (I think there were no icon for businesses in Paris before). Some of them have bubbles: business listing for restaurants, bars, hostels (...), Wikipedia articles for places.
- Jérôme
"People feel uncomfortable when their expected associations are violated, and that creates an unconscious desire to make sense of their surroundings. That feeling of discomfort may come from a surreal story, or from contemplating their own contradictory behaviors, but either way, people want to get rid of it. So they're motivated to learn new patterns."
- Ionut
I think the main idea was to be patient and wait a few months, because you'll buy a much better Android phone than G1.
- Ionut
I think that's always true when it comes to tech toys. The G1 is about a year old, time for generations 2-5 (from my G1 :-))
- John Mueller
from Android
" Android and iPhone users download approximately 10 new apps a month, while iPod touch owners download an average of 18 per month. iPhone and iPod touch users are twice as likely to purchase paid apps than Android users."
- Ionut
"ForceHTTPS is a simple browser security mechanism that web sites or users can use to opt in to stricter error processing, improving the security of HTTPS by preventing network attacks that leverage the browser's lax error processing. By augmenting the browser with a database of custom URL rewrite rules, ForceHTTPS allows sophisticated users to transparently retrofit security onto some insecure sites that support HTTPS." ( https://crypto.stanford.edu/forceht... )
- Ionut
Can't find it in the Android market in the U.S. either. Bummer.
- Adam Lasnik
1. there are third-party spotify clients 2. you can change your country in itunes by signing out, picking a country from the drop-down at the bottom and creating a new account without credit card
- Ionut