Comments on: Google Chrome – Does it Bling? http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/google-chrome-does-it-bling/ Blog about Search Engine Optimization and Internet marketing Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:46:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve Mitchell http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/google-chrome-does-it-bling/#comment-2699 Steve Mitchell Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:12:53 +0000 http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/?p=448#comment-2699 I would tend to agree with a lot of what you said regarding the technical issues and the lateness of the offering to the market. I believe within technical circles and computer pro circles, as well as avid enthusiast markets Google has yet to show a product worthy of taking Firefox's market share. However Google is the darling of "Joe Public" and with its marketing push can sell almost anything. So I do feel its quite likely that it will grab a significant market share. By significant I would refer to around 15%+ even if only on the coat tails of Google marketing. I like the previous poster have some niggling concerns about the ramifications to website owners of the predictive search function and what it "COULD POSSIBLY" mean in the long term. For reasons of etiquette I haven't posted a link in this comment to the post but have twittered you with the details of it. feel free to add it if you like. As far as I know we were the first to comment on the possible changes in "rules of the game" of SEM with this new feature of Chrome should it take greater hold. Either way I'd like to hear your take on the matter also. I would tend to agree with a lot of what you said regarding the technical issues and the lateness of the offering to the market. I believe within technical circles and computer pro circles, as well as avid enthusiast markets Google has yet to show a product worthy of taking Firefox’s market share. However Google is the darling of “Joe Public” and with its marketing push can sell almost anything. So I do feel its quite likely that it will grab a significant market share. By significant I would refer to around 15%+ even if only on the coat tails of Google marketing.
I like the previous poster have some niggling concerns about the ramifications to website owners of the predictive search function and what it “COULD POSSIBLY” mean in the long term.
For reasons of etiquette I haven’t posted a link in this comment to the post but have twittered you with the details of it. feel free to add it if you like.
As far as I know we were the first to comment on the possible changes in “rules of the game” of SEM with this new feature of Chrome should it take greater hold.
Either way I’d like to hear your take on the matter also.

]]> By: KarenKramer http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/google-chrome-does-it-bling/#comment-2688 KarenKramer Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:10:46 +0000 http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/?p=448#comment-2688 My biggest concern with Chrome is with the Omnibar . Have you noticed that when you start typing a search, Omnibar will automatically fill in the URL for the site with the #1 Spot on Google? What will this mean for spots 2-10? How will it effect the traffic numbers to these other spots? My biggest concern with Chrome is with the Omnibar . Have you noticed that when you start typing a search, Omnibar will automatically fill in the URL for the site with the #1 Spot on Google? What will this mean for spots 2-10? How will it effect the traffic numbers to these other spots?

]]> By: P. Bradley Robb http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/google-chrome-does-it-bling/#comment-2648 P. Bradley Robb Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:45:57 +0000 http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/?p=448#comment-2648 Hi Andrew, The easiest manner, as I see it, for Google to get IE 6 users (those who aren't behind a corporate firewall or otherwise not permitted to install software on their machines) to switch to Google is simply include a link on their front page that says something like "Would you like to browse the web up to 56 times faster than your current browser for free?" Granted, that link would then download Chrome and give the oh so familiar message "Browser X is not your default browser. Would you like it to be?" upon starting. Regarding Chrome's use of V8, Mozilla released a side-by-side comparison that had Tracemonkey (the new Java engine in Firefox 3.1) beating V8 in a host of benchmarks. But, like all benchmarks, they must be taken with a grain of salt, the only real bench is real world use. And Ubiquity has been slowly making its way around the Big Oak offices since the day it came out. I'm familiar with command line from working with Linux machines and leaped at the opportunity to have a command line incorporated into my browser of choice. Ubiquity is perhaps the primary reason I have not switched to Chrome. I have an blog post regarding Ubiquity lined up in the pipe right now. Hi Andrew,

The easiest manner, as I see it, for Google to get IE 6 users (those who aren’t behind a corporate firewall or otherwise not permitted to install software on their machines) to switch to Google is simply include a link on their front page that says something like “Would you like to browse the web up to 56 times faster than your current browser for free?” Granted, that link would then download Chrome and give the oh so familiar message “Browser X is not your default browser. Would you like it to be?” upon starting.

Regarding Chrome’s use of V8, Mozilla released a side-by-side comparison that had Tracemonkey (the new Java engine in Firefox 3.1) beating V8 in a host of benchmarks. But, like all benchmarks, they must be taken with a grain of salt, the only real bench is real world use.

And Ubiquity has been slowly making its way around the Big Oak offices since the day it came out. I’m familiar with command line from working with Linux machines and leaped at the opportunity to have a command line incorporated into my browser of choice. Ubiquity is perhaps the primary reason I have not switched to Chrome. I have an blog post regarding Ubiquity lined up in the pipe right now.

]]> By: Andrew Miller http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/google-chrome-does-it-bling/#comment-2644 Andrew Miller Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:12:41 +0000 http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/?p=448#comment-2644 Nice summary, and a good look at a lot of the "sizzle" that makes Chrome buzzworthy. Personally, I agree that until they allow plugins and extensions (supposedly they are working on it), Firefox is still the most useful browser for tech-savvy users. Give FF another year and I'm sure they will lessen the speed and security gaps that Google opened with Chrome. That begs the question, what is going to convince less tech-savvy people to switch browsers? Unfortunately I think Chrome is not going to achieve the market share that would make it a viable competitor to the FF or IE franchises, primarily since FF has been around for years with significant points of differentiation from IE and it still only has less than 20% market share. Even with Chrome, the current browser market is trying to compete for a relatively small subset of web users that always want more, faster. The vast majority don't know or don't care, they just want it to work. My bets are on open source browser extensions that are going to revolutionize the way people interact with the existing content and social features that define the current web. For example, Mozilla's Ubiquity (in alpha) facilitates huge productivity gains by tying together social networking, social media, mashups, and APIs into a unique interface that anybody can learn. The same 25% of people using IE6.0 will probably never adopt this either, but at least it's a taste of what's to come for those of us that want to redefine how we work and interact online. http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/ Nice summary, and a good look at a lot of the “sizzle” that makes Chrome buzzworthy. Personally, I agree that until they allow plugins and extensions (supposedly they are working on it), Firefox is still the most useful browser for tech-savvy users. Give FF another year and I’m sure they will lessen the speed and security gaps that Google opened with Chrome.

That begs the question, what is going to convince less tech-savvy people to switch browsers? Unfortunately I think Chrome is not going to achieve the market share that would make it a viable competitor to the FF or IE franchises, primarily since FF has been around for years with significant points of differentiation from IE and it still only has less than 20% market share.

Even with Chrome, the current browser market is trying to compete for a relatively small subset of web users that always want more, faster. The vast majority don’t know or don’t care, they just want it to work.

My bets are on open source browser extensions that are going to revolutionize the way people interact with the existing content and social features that define the current web. For example, Mozilla’s Ubiquity (in alpha) facilitates huge productivity gains by tying together social networking, social media, mashups, and APIs into a unique interface that anybody can learn. The same 25% of people using IE6.0 will probably never adopt this either, but at least it’s a taste of what’s to come for those of us that want to redefine how we work and interact online.

http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/

]]> By: Will http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/google-chrome-does-it-bling/#comment-2643 Will Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:55:17 +0000 http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/?p=448#comment-2643 I think Chrome really has an uphill battle on its hands. How many firefox users are really gonna to make Chrome their primary browser? I wonder if Google will be able to convince hardware vendors to bundle Chrome with other pieces of Google software. I think Chrome really has an uphill battle on its hands. How many firefox users are really gonna to make Chrome their primary browser? I wonder if Google will be able to convince hardware vendors to bundle Chrome with other pieces of Google software.

]]> By: P. Bradley Robb http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/google-chrome-does-it-bling/#comment-2642 P. Bradley Robb Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:24:59 +0000 http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/?p=448#comment-2642 Only if I can gripe about an Open Source app that launched without a Linux version. Only if I can gripe about an Open Source app that launched without a Linux version.

]]> By: Shell Harris http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/google-chrome-does-it-bling/#comment-2641 Shell Harris Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:20:44 +0000 http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/?p=448#comment-2641 Should I whine about the lack of a Macintosh version? Should I whine about the lack of a Macintosh version?

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