Just some Googles

September 22, 2008

Sometimes I just like to talk and this is one place to do it. Since I already have this blog sitting around, taking up space on my domain, I may as well put it to some use.

Here, have some talking stuff:

Google Chrome — of course, everyone who actively uses the internet already knows about this. Google comes one step closer to it’s ultimate dominion of the internet (and computers in general) by rolling out it’s new browser.

It’s a pretty shiny little tool. I use it at home, if not at work yet, and the only major complaint I have is that the automatic spellcheck function doesn’t jive with Livejournal. Considering that LJ is my primary source of social blogging and general skulduggery, and I am an incurably bad speller, this is something of an inconvenience.

Additionally, for reasons beyond my full comprehension, Chrome and my Vista-enabled 1GB RAM Laptop don’t care for each other. One minute I’m trucking along fine; the next, Chrome has slowed to a snails crawl and won’t let me close it, let alone any tabs or even switch to a different program. I have yet to discover whether this has anything to do with Chrome as a whole, or my laptop in particular.

Whenever I think about stories set in the far future, I think about Google. The common adage now-a-days for the internet savy is “How did I ever manage without Google?” (I think we all had to go to use ‘other search engines’ or even go to the ‘library’, but I can’t swear by anything.) Will some variation of Google remain with us forever, now? Or if it becomes bankrupt or obsolete, what would take it’s place?

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