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Monday, December 14, 2009

Firefox Executive Recommends Bing Over Google

Posted by Chris Gohlke in "Digital Home News" @ 07:00 PM

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/ne...tm_campaign=rss

"Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's director of community development, used his personal blog to urge Firefox users away from Google and to use Microsoft's search engine Bing, instead. Dotzler cited privacy concerns, specifically pointing to comments recently made by Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "I think judgment matters," said Schmidt. "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." Dotzler then links to the Bing add-on for Firefox, stating that Bing's privacy policy is better than Google's (and notably fails to mention Yahoo at all)."

At the least this is a really poor choice of words by Schmidt, if it is more than that, then it is pretty scary. Whether you just don't want to be embarrassed by someone finding out you spend your days searching Twilight fan fiction or more seriously don't want a potential employer or insurer inferring some of the more intimate details of your personal life based on searches, you should have the ability to keep this information private. Plus, what you search is really just raw data and all sorts of conclusions could be inferred by someone not knowing your reasons for performing the search.


Friday, October 23, 2009

Looking for Music? Just Google It!

Posted by Hooch Tan in "Digital Home News" @ 02:00 PM

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/2...he-screenshots/

"None of the companies involved will confirm the new Google Music service – we have “no comments” or absolute silence from Google, LaLa, MySpace and iLike. But the new service is all but confirmed. And we have the screenshots showing how the service, which will be announced on October 28, will look to prove it."

Full details on the rumoured Google Music are not out yet, but it appears that Google intends on integrating music and songs into search results. No, songs will not automatically start playing once you get to your search results, thank goodness, but Google will provide a box like the ones shown on TechCrunch which let you preview songs and buy them. I am not exactly sure how much usefulness this would be, except in maybe simplifying the music purchase process, saving you a few steps. Hopefully, Google will take this a step further and start offering more than just a slip streamed experience, or this might be one of those Google projects that never really took off.

Tags: music, search, google

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