Bing – Google Mashups in Abundance
Congratulations to the WSJ for discovering Bingle, a mashup of Bingle and Google that displays search results side-by-side. It’s really handy, but nothing new and nothing out of ordinary. There’s also Bing & Google, Bing vs. Google – all three have been available for months, and there are probably a lot more. It takes close [...]
Sony VAIO PCs Have Been Selling with Google Chrome as Default Browser for Quite a While
Several blogs report the “news”, based on a Financial Times article that Sony VAIO PC’s will soon be selling with Google’s Chrome browser as default browser in the US. Nice, and it will no doubt help Google’s browser which still has less than 2% market share. But it’s not exactly news. A month or so [...]
Take Your Paws Off My System, Microsoft
<rant> I’ve had it. I’m tired of Microsoft programs taking over my computer without permission. This time it’s IE7 – yes, I know, IE8 is out, but I could not care less. In fact I have not launched IE7 for a long time. Sticking with Firefox, and if I was not so dependent on several [...]
Market Share vs. Popularity
Who am I to question the great Walt Mossberg? But when he says Internet Explorer is the World’s most popular browser I have to wonder… Here’s a definition of popularity from Wikipedia: Popularity is the quality of being well-liked or common. Looks like Mossberg is right if we focus on common. Internet Explorer is no [...]
