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Shokuji
of marketing? Or is there some way we can suggest "Opera" to them?
Lee Harvey
> What's with Firefox getting on the list? Is the Google Pack just a form
> of marketing? Or is there some way we can suggest "Opera" to them?
For those interested:
http://pack.google.com/
Yes, you can suggest products:
http://www.google.com/support/pack/bin/answer.py?answer=28079
Google has their hands in everything these days. I can't think of any other
company that prostitutes themselves out more than Google. While I enjoy
their search results, I'll avoid some of their product recommendations.
Just some thoughts.
Bill P
> What's with Firefox getting on the list? Is the Google Pack just a form
> of marketing? Or is there some way we can suggest "Opera" to them?
>
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Google has link to make suggestions on new inclusions on the Pack page. But you gotta wonder since there's a partnersip between Opera and Google if they made an offer to include and Opera declined or if not what kind of partner Google is. If the offer was made Opera's not accepting was a gross marketing error.
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Al13n
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>What's with Firefox getting on the list? Is the Google Pack just a form
>of marketing? Or is there some way we can suggest "Opera" to them?
There's an option to suggest software here:
http://www.google.com/support/pack/bin/request.py
As for their choices in software, I don't know. I'm not particularly keen
on them including Norton, which you'll have to pay for in a few months,
when there are plenty of freeware anti-virus options out there. And
Ad-Aware, with all of tis crippled-to-free-users features--what about
Spybot S&D? Trillian is also limited software to free users, isn't it?
Google Pack is a marketing engine . . . with a fancy installer/uninstaller
;)
Shokuji
for some reason. :)
I'm kind of a google fan, so I don't mind so much that they are kind of
everywhere. At least it's not MSN or AOL or something like that, you
know?
Shokuji
Google has link to make suggestions on new inclusions on the Pack page.
But you gotta wonder since there's a partnersip between Opera and
Google if they made an offer to include and Opera declined or if not
what kind of partner Google is. If the offer was made Opera's not
Well it could be that google isn't including Opera because as of right
now Opera isn't fully compatable with Google in many ways. Once that
gets cleared up, I'm assuming that things will be much smoother between
the two.
Shokuji
I'm not particularly keen
on them including Norton, which you'll have to pay for in a few months,
when there are plenty of freeware anti-virus options out there. [-]
Well, at the very least, it comes with 6 months of free updates. So
that's not so bad. And yes there are free options it's true, but they
are not made equal unfortunately. Avast, Free Antivir, and the like are
-free-, but in comparison to pay options, don't update as quickly and
don't clean all known viruses. Here's a link:
http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/default.asp?id=69&mnu=69
I guess Kaspersky was the best. Norton beat McAfee. Panda beat
PC-Cillin. AntiVir came in 20th out of 51. Avast came in right after
it.
Suprising, no?
Gene Goldenfeld
That's one survey. Look around and you'll find very different results
elsewhere, and even changing year to year. Moreover, how do these
programs actually work: Norton is reknown for problemsome versions
lately and being slow to load, while Panda seems very good but is even
slower to load and I just had to remove the 2006 version because it was
killing the boot about 2/3 of the time. Reading online, I wasn't the
first to face this.
Gene
Frank
wrote:
> For those interested:
> http://pack.google.com/
It's only available for XP. Boy, I'm glad I switched to Linux.
> company that prostitutes themselves out more than Google. While I enjoy
> their search results, I'll avoid some of their product recommendations.
All seriousness aside, as Steve Allen used to say, even though Google's
motto is "Don't Be Evil," I don't think I'd want my emails, innocuous as
they are, saved on their servers for eternity. Nor do I want them or
anyone else watching my online movements, as innocuous as they may be.
It's a great search engine, but it seems to be turning into the Borg.
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Dude, there's a partnership between Google and every freakin company
that's interested in one.
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