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Our Blogs Open Sauce Chrome is good news for the ABM crowd | Chrome is good news for the ABM crowd |
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| by Sam Varghese | |
| Friday, 05 September 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 3 And despite the fact that the Chrome development team is mostly a bunch who have yet to spout hair on their upper lips, there is no clutter in that design. It's minimalist, uses white space creatively and ensures that you can't mistake it for anything other than a browser. Much like the Google search page - just compare it with the dog's breakfast that is the Yahoo! start page or Microsoft's search website. You can see the UNIX philosophy dominating on the Google page - let an application do one thing, and do it damn well. Then hand over the processed data to another app. In that sense, Chrome is not "cool". It's utilitarian, commonsensical and pretty simple to boot. But it's trading on a brand that has used these same factors to become a 700-pound gorilla. Else, nobody would have gone with a real dumb name like Chrome. Somebody at the Googpeplex must have had a brain-fart at the time. Does no-one know what chroming means? Is that the kind of image this browser is going to live with? Probably it was someone of like intelligence who thought up the silly "news" site which Google runs - the site cannot generate anything on its own but merely compiles stories from other sites. It takes a good two hours for a story about a cyclone to arrive on the Google news site. It's a redefinition of the word "news" - and at times bogus news, like this one, leads the page. (Update, September 11: Here's another brilliant example of how the Google news site works. Need one say more?) Google likes to be known as a "good" company. It often styles itself as an open source outfit - even though it only uses open source software for its own benefit. In order to be able to use that software well, it hires some of the top people working on it. And that means good karma. People never look at cause and effect. Chrome is released under a BSD licence for a specific purpose. This means that proprietary companies will feel comfortable to pick up code if they wish and lock it away for good - code that will make their browsers interact better with Google's web applications. |
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