Category Archives: Google

Google Acquiring Valve? Makes Total Sense. Here’s Why.

Update: Of course the rumours were debunked.  Ah well.  It made for a tasty morning. :)  On another note, it did whet our collective appetite for what Google would or could do with gaming. Third note: in spite of being Google, they are still Google, and their next acquisition, be it gaming or otherwise, might [...]

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Google’s Chrome: One Retraction, Two Things It Does Wrong

So I’ve been using Chrome for a little while.  I still likes it, but there are a few things that have come to my attention that require me updating my original post.  One retraction of sorts, and two other things that greatly annoy (and maybe its just me).
1. Chrome isn’t as “small” as I thought: [...]

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Two Things Firefox Never Seems To Fix (Which Chrome Gets Right)

My laptop is running XP, and its a bit of an oldish machine.  Pentium M.  500 MB RAM.  80 gig hard drive.  Its running a little slower these days — seems to slow right down the instant you right click on a folder, or open up the control panel.  In fact, its so slow I [...]

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Google’s Chrome: The Only Two Things You Need To Know

Having played around with Google’s new browser, Chrome, I’d like to offer my two bits to the ongoing bloggasm around its release.  If you’re looking for an indepth review, wander over to Uncle Walt’s breakdown. I modestly submit to you that if you’re a busy individual, these are the only two things you really need [...]

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Google’s Chrome Could Be Crap — And It Would Still Gain Market Share

Lots of interesting news about Google’s new browser, Chrome, and lots more interesting questions around it.  I love the comic by Scott Adams McCloud, being a fan of his work (mainly Understanding Comics and Making Comics ) as well, but that’s beside the point.  The most surprising news, for me, is that its not being [...]

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The “Mainstream” Deception Is Google’s Achille’s Heel

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments on a recent Hitwise study, remarking that a whole load of people *still* type in the URL not in the Address Bar, but directly into a search engine, to find their site.  Marshall’s wondering if civilization as we know it would collapse around our ears if some elements of the web going [...]

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Why PageRank Still Means Something To Me

Well, looks like there’s another PageRank update underway, and it looks like this blog has been penalized / slapped down, for what I can only imagine is the fact that I have paid links on this site (or, used to be: read on). It used to have a PageRank of 6, and now its [...]

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