I imagine that Chrome makes them money by pretty much ensuring that all users of it search through Google, increasing their advertising revenue.
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I imagine that Chrome makes them money by pretty much ensuring that all users of it search through Google, increasing their advertising revenue.
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Looks interesting!
And lol at OldCoals.
And lol at OldCoals.
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Chrome's address/search bar. Every time you search on Google (regardless of what browser you are using) Google keeps the search data, all your search data, and simply speaking sells your search details. Google actually is worse than this in a sense that it knows and can work out far more about you than you realise. If someone approached Google and asked for search data from 20-23 year olds from London, I'm sure they could supply a huge amount of information to a paying client.
This is what I have been lead to believe from working on a similar project.
Why lol at me?
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Thanks, that does explain why some of those google text ads I see seem to know rather a lot about me in terms of what sort of things I buy...
lol at you because
GTalk is integrated into Gmail (which I use a lot) and it's good. Don't want crappy MSN or skype. Update to GTalk allows video calling over 3G too.
If you have used any of the newer features of Google Docs then you have effectively used Google Wave. It was a bit of an experiment, and unfortunately too far ahead (or behind) of its time.
Still under development, and Samsung and Acer are releasing ChromeOS notebooks soon.
True, which is why they have just released new deployment standards for quicker and guaranteed updates.
Google often released products that they think will be of use, rather than being initally profitable in the hope that they become widespread and critical to people... therefore giving them the edge when it comes to generating profit later in the services life-cycle.
Oh yeh so in summary you don't appear to know very much.
A lot of garbage mentioned by him.
Tracking cookies track your habits and a lot of sites do this, not just Google.. No way of avoiding it unless no noscript every website you visit every time.
This.
@ MikeHunt79
http://lifehacker.com/5763452/what-data-does-chrome-send-to-google-about-me
Read that. In summary... don't be worried about what Chrome sends back to Google.
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If you give away hotdogs for free, mustard sales will rocket.
The more integrated your life is to Google and their tertiary services (mail, maps, calendar, youtube, etc) the less likely you are to move away and use another search engine.
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I wasn't saying that Google sells personal information or that Chrome sends back data, but every time you search for something Google logs it, if you make say 10 searches a day, looking for a certain brands, or certain items, a willing buyer can buy search information, which directly relates to a demographic, not necessarily a person. This makes sense to me but could be wrong (in which case the project I was working on would have been a waste of time).
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Apparently they have had to scale back plans for Google Music:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13350345
Lack of cooperation from major music labels supposedly
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13350345
Lack of cooperation from major music labels supposedly
Hate music labels. Constantly stifling innovation.
Google should just buy the music industry (apparently thy have the money to
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it's perhaps ahead of it's time for some but that doesn't mean it's useless. it'll get better and data packages will also improve as more peopel use them and go over.
also i think all android phones have wifi built in. say you go to your gym that has free wifi you can now play all your music in the cloud. pretty usefull tbh
But you're relying on that being there.
Your home has wifi, good stream there.
Go to walk to the gym, no wifi on random roads and streets - have to use offline synced music.
Get to gym, then back on cloud.
Just stick your gym music on your device and be done with it. It's a nice idea but way ahead of it's time.
Things aren't getting better with data caps, look at America now with companies wanting to limit your actual cable connection to 150GB a month. never mind their 3G data caps. Unfortunately a lot of this bad behaviour gets replicated in other countries in time.
If it is just you, fine. But what happens when there are 30 people all streaming on the gym's crappy Wi-Fi?
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they'll improve it if it's lacking. ok maybe not the small ones but i don't see it being a problem tbh as this'll not take off tomorrow but will become the standard over time so the gyms/cafes will be able to upgrade their wifi service.
to say that as it wont work for some it's useless then is silly, it clearly is a good idea and will get better as technology improves. it can work right now and will work well for users that have the tech and lifestyle to use it. it's not useless as has been described
to say that as it wont work for some it's useless then is silly, it clearly is a good idea and will get better as technology improves. it can work right now and will work well for users that have the tech and lifestyle to use it. it's not useless as has been described
Would be interested in home automation, in exists in several forms already.but it would be nice if it's pushed out into the wider Market and as such keep the software evolving and hopefully reducing the price of the control units.
Any one know what system it runs with? Is it x10?
Any one know what system it runs with? Is it x10?
I never said it was useless, I just don't see it being all that amazing given you can go all day without coming across a decent wifi hotspot and the probably not going away any time soon data limits on 3G.
The day I can listen, watch or read any of my media, anywhere on any device is being eagerly awaited by me. I am just being realistic!
The day I can listen, watch or read any of my media, anywhere on any device is being eagerly awaited by me. I am just being realistic!