True reason for Chrome's creation, Ads?

An ad company showing ads is evil now.

I think perhaps the world has lost some perspective.

 

I don't see how an ad popping up once every few months (this ad was closable and went away on its own) is really unfortunate for anyone.

 

Is there an tangable reference in regards to that statement? Perhaps an link?


HKEY1952

 

Well, it can be nuisance (especially the flash ads), gobbling up system resources.

 

A simple search will show multiple sites showing this trend.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Firefox and IE have been going down for months and Chrome has been taking the majority of their users.



@Martin: This was a text based ad. No flash. It was also like... incredibly tiny and nonobtrusive, could easily be closed (a nice big "Ignore" button), and went away on its own.

 

Is there an tangable reference in regards to that statement? Perhaps an link?


HKEY1952

 

http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html

Q3 2011
Total revenue: $9,720
Total advertising revenue: $9,335 (96% of the total revenue)

 

It is in fact 99% of their revenue that is from ads.

You can read their financial reports yourself if you like but I'm not going to track one down when a simple wikipedia search will tell you this.

EDIT: I see, it's now 96%. I guess things have changed in the last few years.

 

I have no idea what other income Google has except ads, maybe subscription fees (for what?)

 

Thank you for the link Hungry Man.

The link that was provided clearly shows that Firefox is the leader of the pack, not Chrome.
The statistics do indicate however, as you said, an decline in Firefox and an growth for Chrome.
This is only one statistical analysis from one source though, but acceptable.


HKEY1952

 

As I said before... there are multiple sites showing the trend, I'm just not going to go find them.

The stats indicate that IE is the most popular, Firefox is second, Chrome third. Both IE and Firefox are losing members while Chrome gains.

 

According to Statcounter, Google Chrome is already the second most used web browser worldwide (with IE showing a slight increase, and Firefox a decrease).

 

Thank you for the link Martijn2.

Interesting, and very informative.


HKEY1952

 

Well I must admit that the overall statistics must have some validity because after reading about Google Chrome on
the Google Web site, the artical "Why use Google Chrome" is very convincing about the Simplicity and Security that
Google Chrome exisits.....I am so tempted to try it.....It would be the first time that I ever used another Browser.

The heck with the Ads, that is commonplace nowdays, and according to the artical "Why Use Google Chrome" most of
the Ad Tracking and Display of Ads can be eliminated or blocked in the Browser Configuration.

I, personally, am more concerned about the Google Chrome Privacy Notice, but then again, it is no different than any
other End User License Agreement (EULA).


Why use Google Chrome?
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/more/index.html

Google Chrome Privacy Notice:
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/privacy.html


HKEY1952

 

The EULA is standard.

As for blocking ads with Chrome you need to go to about:flags (type it into your url bar) and enable experimental extensions API and then use this:
http://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/adblockpluschrome-experimental/00latest.crx

 

Is it safe? (as Laurence Olivier asked Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man)

 

Yes, it's safe.

 

Thank you Sir,

It is still under advisement.....


HKEY1952

 

Ermm ... OK, I believe you (no need to get the Black & Decker out yet then LOL).

 

Ha! I just got the ad on my desktop PC as I was checking for Chrome extension updates.

... and yes, it is evil.

You won't see that on SRWare Iron! (you'll need an adblocker to see their site though LOL)

 

Again, if displaying a plaintext ad is evil I think the world has really lost its perspective.

 

A lot of websites thrive on ads, without them the web would look a lot different yes.

 

Multiple industries are built on ads. Imagine TV without commercials or those "Hey Famous Actor give me that sprite! I sure do love sprite!" gimmes. It probably wouldn't exist... or it would be crazy expensive.

 

Yes, it's expanding and showing ads even where it isn't supposed to. Isn't it enough to have ads on Google Search which is default on Chrome, and on a large portion of all webpages?

I think perhaps the world rejects being abused and know that pretty much all the other browsers abandoned (like Opera) or simply never used such evil model (like IE, Firefox, Safari).

 

We have very very different ideas of evil. When I hear "evil" I think war-crimes etc. When I hear evil I don't think "Oh, an ad pops up once every few months and you can easily close it or just ignore it and it'll go away."

Hardly sinister...