Comments on: Good News Everybody http://diebesteallerzeiten.de/blog/2010/01/31/good-news-everybody/ Personal weblog of a web guy from Berlin/Germany with comments on programming, space exploration and assorted stuff. Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:36:40 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Eike http://diebesteallerzeiten.de/blog/2010/01/31/good-news-everybody/comment-page-1/#comment-21803 Eike Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:27:06 +0000 http://diebesteallerzeiten.de/blog/?p=625#comment-21803 There is probably a difference in perspective - for me the "important bit" of Google is not the search engine but their apps and the code they share. I understand that my post is a bit misleading if one doesn't read the linked article, but google docs etc will no longer be supported. This will neither affect the search engine (nor commercial users who propably would not entrust their documents to Google) but will hopefully prompt a lot of private users to upgrade when they can't access services they've become accustomed to. There is probably a difference in perspective – for me the “important bit” of Google is not the search engine but their apps and the code they share. I understand that my post is a bit misleading if one doesn’t read the linked article, but google docs etc will no longer be supported. This will neither affect the search engine (nor commercial users who propably would not entrust their documents to Google) but will hopefully prompt a lot of private users to upgrade when they can’t access services they’ve become accustomed to.

]]> By: Ed http://diebesteallerzeiten.de/blog/2010/01/31/good-news-everybody/comment-page-1/#comment-21802 Ed Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:06:19 +0000 http://diebesteallerzeiten.de/blog/?p=625#comment-21802 Oh, no, it isn't. Fortunately, Google are only planning to upgrade some unimportant aspects of their website. The search engine, the important bit, will continue to function normally in IE 5 and IE 6. IE6 is typically run on an older computer, that isn't capable of running IE8. What Google is really saying is: we demand that you buy a new computer, and buy a new Operating System, and buy all-new Windows 7 software. Well, no one in their right mind is going to fork out the cost of all that! Not because one search engine makes a trivial change to its website. Although they might not like it, even if Google disappears tomorrow there are plenty of other search engines! Oh, no, it isn’t.

Fortunately, Google are only planning to upgrade some unimportant aspects of their website. The search engine, the important bit, will continue to function normally in IE 5 and IE 6.

IE6 is typically run on an older computer, that isn’t capable of running IE8. What Google is really saying is: we demand that you buy a new computer, and buy a new Operating System, and buy all-new Windows 7 software.

Well, no one in their right mind is going to fork out the cost of all that! Not because one search engine makes a trivial change to its website.

Although they might not like it, even if Google disappears tomorrow there are plenty of other search engines!

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