Comments on: Google Cries Wolf About IE7 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/05/01/google-cries-wolf-about-ie7/ Jeff Nolan's take on investment, innovation, entrepreneurship and the technology industry Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:50:28 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jeff http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/05/01/google-cries-wolf-about-ie7/comment-page-1/#comment-1776 Jeff Tue, 02 May 2006 15:55:36 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/05/01/google-cries-wolf-about-ie7/#comment-1776 Apparently Google doesn't believe people will change their defaults that frequently, otherwise they wouldn't have paid Dell $1b to put Google on the desktop of every Dell PC. 2: good point. Apparently Google doesn’t believe people will change their defaults that frequently, otherwise they wouldn’t have paid Dell $1b to put Google on the desktop of every Dell PC.

2: good point.

]]> By: Nitin http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/05/01/google-cries-wolf-about-ie7/comment-page-1/#comment-1763 Nitin Tue, 02 May 2006 08:15:44 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/05/01/google-cries-wolf-about-ie7/#comment-1763 1. I wonder if many folks will change their defaults. So Google has a point to worry about. 2. Search is becoming a commodity, there is not much difference in a normal search done over Yahoo, Google or any other (unless you are looking for advanced search topics). It is interesting to perceive Google as an "Ad Delivery Mechanism" rather than a search engine and you get an entirely different view of things.
  • I wonder if many folks will change their defaults. So Google has a point to worry about.
  • Search is becoming a commodity, there is not much difference in a normal search done over Yahoo, Google or any other (unless you are looking for advanced search topics). It is interesting to perceive Google as an “Ad Delivery Mechanism” rather than a search engine and you get an entirely different view of things.
    • ]]>         By: Jeff http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/05/01/google-cries-wolf-about-ie7/comment-page-1/#comment-1758 Jeff Tue, 02 May 2006 05:20:46 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/05/01/google-cries-wolf-about-ie7/#comment-1758 I thought about deleting the above comment because I think it's pretty unlikely that the author Jeff Nolan is browsing my blog, so it's likely some smart ass. But I am going to leave it because anyone that knows me will be quick to recognize that I would never post a comment as inane as "it all has to do with simplicity". I thought about deleting the above comment because I think it’s pretty unlikely that the author Jeff Nolan is browsing my blog, so it’s likely some smart ass. But I am going to leave it because anyone that knows me will be quick to recognize that I would never post a comment as inane as “it all has to do with simplicity”.

    ]]>         By: jeff nolan http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/05/01/google-cries-wolf-about-ie7/comment-page-1/#comment-1756 jeff nolan Tue, 02 May 2006 03:39:09 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/05/01/google-cries-wolf-about-ie7/#comment-1756 It all has to do with simplicity. Simplicity rules. Whatever is simplest and fastest, eventually will catch on. Just like google, and just like firefox. It all has to do with simplicity. Simplicity rules. Whatever is simplest and fastest, eventually will catch on. Just like google, and just like firefox.

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