Is Google being Intrusive?
Friday, 27. January 2006, 09:34:44
I've always been kind of impressed about what they've achieved, but there are some things that they definitely do wrong.
The first time I used Google Desktop i love it. But then i started to develop an IE Toolband and saw some ugly stuff. Of course, I downloaded Google Toolbar and said: "This is what i want". I started to program and had to fight my way out through IE "behaviors". Then I unistalled Google's toolbar and found that mine wasn't there too. My "innocent" first thought was: "I've done something wrong". So i repeated all steps and, guess what, my toolbar disapeared again
. Checking all around I've end up tracing changes with the popular RegMon from System Internals. There I discover that the Google Toolbar resets the whole layout of the Internet Explorer toolbars during unistall. I really couldn't beleave my eyes. Some may be surprised by my reaction, until realise that this can NEVER be labeled as a BUG. There is no way this could be a "programming error". This is something you do by mean. For those away from programming, it's like cuting a tree to make sure your cat goes down...
Of course then I gave more attention to Google's methods, and saw things like Google Desktop being loaded on most of the process I had, or Google Talk minimizing my movie or game every time someone messaged me...
I hope this change in the future, they are great on server side, but they're making some mistakes on client side...
Camus
The first time I used Google Desktop i love it. But then i started to develop an IE Toolband and saw some ugly stuff. Of course, I downloaded Google Toolbar and said: "This is what i want". I started to program and had to fight my way out through IE "behaviors". Then I unistalled Google's toolbar and found that mine wasn't there too. My "innocent" first thought was: "I've done something wrong". So i repeated all steps and, guess what, my toolbar disapeared again
. Checking all around I've end up tracing changes with the popular RegMon from System Internals. There I discover that the Google Toolbar resets the whole layout of the Internet Explorer toolbars during unistall. I really couldn't beleave my eyes. Some may be surprised by my reaction, until realise that this can NEVER be labeled as a BUG. There is no way this could be a "programming error". This is something you do by mean. For those away from programming, it's like cuting a tree to make sure your cat goes down...Of course then I gave more attention to Google's methods, and saw things like Google Desktop being loaded on most of the process I had, or Google Talk minimizing my movie or game every time someone messaged me...
I hope this change in the future, they are great on server side, but they're making some mistakes on client side...
Camus
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