Ubuntu switches back to Google as default search engine

Post by niels_olson » Fri, Apr 09, 2010, 5:50 AM UTC

gcb wrote: post #29

enjo wrote: post #24

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http://anotherubuntu.blogspot.com/2010/04/ubuntu-claims-12-m... Ubuntu is claiming 12 million users. That's not incredibly big, but it's probably enough to make Google take notice.

I guess it's more then that. They are aware that those few users influence exponentially more users.

I would concur. I certainly hand out a few CDs of every release to interested friends and colleagues. I happened across an anesthesiologist just yesterday playing tunes in the OR with his Hackintosh. Not Ubuntu, but I'm willing to bet he's tried that too. So I think the people who are starting to look seriously into alternative computing is on the rise and in a variety of sectors, not just male college geeks and their friends.

Post by lwhi » Fri, Apr 09, 2010, 11:46 AM UTC

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tvon wrote: post #10

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Google does a good job with marketing against Apple with "Open", it would do wonders for MS to market against Google with "Privacy".

Why does anyone think Microsoft protects your privacy any better than Google does? FFS, Google was the ONLY search engine which went to court to protect your searches from collection under COPA: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-146420.html Microsoft, Yahoo etc just handed their logs over. Gmail's still the only webmail provider which uses SSL by default. There are numerous similar cases. Microsoft can't use "Privac…

I think this is a game of 'what if'.

If providing tools to manage privacy gave MS an advantage, I could imagine there's at least a possibility they might supply them.

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