Web browser wonder boy loses trust in Google
December 30th, 2006 — dan.linUpdate: Tips have been temporarily removed
Blake Ross of Firefox has lost trust in the ‘don’t be evil’ search and advertising giant Google. In a recent blog post on blakeross.com, he describes how Google is foregoing is prior position of allowing the cream to surface to the top in lieu of promoting its own tools. The example he uses is searching for the phrase ‘photo sharing’ in Google returns a tip on the top of the page promoting their photo sharing tool Picasa.
Although Picasa is a fine tool for sharing photos but it is certainly not the best of breed. This probably has some to do with Blake’s new company Parakey whose goal is to make media sharing and various common Web tasks seamless to the normal Web user.