Comments on: Is everything "plain and simple" with Google? http://www.techiteasy.org/2007/08/09/is-everything-plain-and-simple-with-google/ A Technology and Business Weblog provided to You by a Global Group of Friends. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:29:11 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Which place does the web take? « Tech IT Easy http://www.techiteasy.org/2007/08/09/is-everything-plain-and-simple-with-google/#comment-2882 Which place does the web take? « Tech IT Easy Tue, 14 Aug 2007 07:09:38 +0000 http://techiteasy.org/2007/08/09/is-everything-plain-and-simple-with-google/#comment-2882 [...] and business-aquaintances, together. And take something like iGoogle or search, which Matthias wrote about a short while ago, where both your search-results and widgets can easily be a mix between work and [...] [...] and business-aquaintances, together. And take something like iGoogle or search, which Matthias wrote about a short while ago, where both your search-results and widgets can easily be a mix between work and [...]

]]> By: Matthias Schwenk http://www.techiteasy.org/2007/08/09/is-everything-plain-and-simple-with-google/#comment-2886 Matthias Schwenk Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:33:37 +0000 http://techiteasy.org/2007/08/09/is-everything-plain-and-simple-with-google/#comment-2886 I might try it, too! Sharing some data with Google must not necessarily be a (dangerous) risk, but a chance for better services, search results and other stuff to come in the near future. I might try it, too! Sharing some data with Google must not necessarily be a (dangerous) risk, but a chance for better services, search results and other stuff to come in the near future.

]]> By: Vincent van Wylick http://www.techiteasy.org/2007/08/09/is-everything-plain-and-simple-with-google/#comment-2885 Vincent van Wylick Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:43:48 +0000 http://techiteasy.org/2007/08/09/is-everything-plain-and-simple-with-google/#comment-2885 If you mean the personalised home-page, igoogle.com, yes I'm a loyal user, even updating my twitter from it. Personalised search happens to every user who signs in, I think (and approves of it happening). If you mean the personalised home-page, igoogle.com, yes I’m a loyal user, even updating my twitter from it. Personalised search happens to every user who signs in, I think (and approves of it happening).

]]> By: Matthias Schwenk http://www.techiteasy.org/2007/08/09/is-everything-plain-and-simple-with-google/#comment-2884 Matthias Schwenk Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:40:14 +0000 http://techiteasy.org/2007/08/09/is-everything-plain-and-simple-with-google/#comment-2884 Interesting point. Indeed Hakia will get problems with advertising when they can't customize it. Meanwhile Google is marching in the opposite direction with the new "iGoogle" service (personalized search). Interesting point. Indeed Hakia will get problems with advertising when they can’t customize it.

Meanwhile Google is marching in the opposite direction with the new “iGoogle” service (personalized search).

]]> By: Vincent van Wylick http://www.techiteasy.org/2007/08/09/is-everything-plain-and-simple-with-google/#comment-2883 Vincent van Wylick Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:31:46 +0000 http://techiteasy.org/2007/08/09/is-everything-plain-and-simple-with-google/#comment-2883 There's several ways to look at this. One, yes privacy is important and protecting it is important to users Another is that privacy is not important, to the extent that losing some of it is not perceived harmful. With the current trend of millions of blogs and 100s of personalisation services, I would gather that many net-users don't care so much, as long as they don't get harmed (though that certainly is happening and will likely get worse before it gets better). A final take is as follows. By using stuff like cookies, search-engines can provide both a better service and more targeted adverts. The latter means that search-engines can collect more revenue, which leads to more cash for better code. So, while I think Haiku's approach is interesting, here are two reasons why I don't think it's great. Instead, policies like "don't be evil", which may not be taken seriously by geeks and cynical business-peeps, do probably work quite well with the general masses. So, good publicity + cash + R&D is better than just good publicity. (Can you tell that I'm a capitalist? :) There’s several ways to look at this. One, yes privacy is important and protecting it is important to users

Another is that privacy is not important, to the extent that losing some of it is not perceived harmful. With the current trend of millions of blogs and 100s of personalisation services, I would gather that many net-users don’t care so much, as long as they don’t get harmed (though that certainly is happening and will likely get worse before it gets better).

A final take is as follows. By using stuff like cookies, search-engines can provide both a better service and more targeted adverts. The latter means that search-engines can collect more revenue, which leads to more cash for better code.

So, while I think Haiku’s approach is interesting, here are two reasons why I don’t think it’s great.

Instead, policies like “don’t be evil”, which may not be taken seriously by geeks and cynical business-peeps, do probably work quite well with the general masses. So, good publicity + cash + R&D is better than just good publicity. (Can you tell that I’m a capitalist? :)

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