Google Chrome has minions.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 3 comments link this postI've been highly curious and desiring to download and try out the new Google browser, Google Chrome.
Today, the day it was supposed to be released, I find that it...isn't released. Yet. Doing searches and trying to find the official download pages reveals that Google is redirecting to the home Google page.
Regardless, the creepy aspect here is that I left a Twitter message just a few minutes ago regarding my interest in Google Chrome, only to find that GetGoogleChrome is now following me on Twitter.
That had to have happened within minutes of posting my original Tweet.
While anyone is free to follow accounts at Twitter so set up, and I am free to block...I just found that a little creepy. I guess (and I'm not a techie, so I can't write about it any more complex that this) that what you post at Twitter can be little more than key words for direct marketing.
Huh.
"Don't be evil", indeed. Let the unofficial minions do that.
UPDATE: Google Chrome now available here. (Thanks, Will.)
UPDATE 2: Google Chrome is fast. Its appearance is fairly sparse. The first thing I did was check to see if my own web site fell apart in the new browser; it doesn't seem to have, though if anyone notices something looking strange with Chrome, I'd appreciate an email about it. I sure miss the Adblock feature of Firefox, though I suppose, with Google, I can't expect that. I would like better integration with the Google apps and my Google account (not just dropping it onto my desktop/taskbar), unless I've just not discovered how that is accomplished quite yet.
Labels: internet, technology
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 9/02/2008 01:33:00 PM
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3 Comments:
Everything in your center column, text and bars, are bleeding over the right side bar by about a half inch, making the text hard to read. I'm using Explorer. Carmon
By 
Life at Star's Rest, at
3/9/08 08:47
Hmm. I'll see what I can do. It's not happening in my other browsers, only IE.
By Julie R. Neidlinger, at
3/9/08 12:21
...the problem is one of my statcounters -- for some reason, it changed size and is throwing off the way IE displays the page. I'll keep working on it. Until I get if fixed...sorry.
By Julie R. Neidlinger, at
3/9/08 12:43
