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Bumblings

Things in today’s blog postings that are interesting:

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft probably get at least 20% of their revenue from their toolbars. This is obviously because each toolbar is associated with a specific search engine. If you use a Mac, rather than a PC, mostly everything goes through Google.
Nifty hints for producing print stylesheets.
Kathy Sierra likes space (yay!), and Travis (boo!).

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2 Responses to "Bumblings"

19 July 2006 at 09:33 AM
Mark wrote:

I’ve not had to fight-off Google Toolbar on ANY of my Macs, though I could install the Firefox one if I wished (which I don’t). Note that this is NOT the same as the integrated search in the toolbar of many browsers (though that is undoubtedly beneficial to Google aswell).

Some Windows PCs come with Google Toolbar installed, noteably Dell. Some ISPs install Google toolbar on Windows PCs. Even Adobe will install Google toolbar in IE when you install Shockwave for Windows! It’s not obvious to novice users that it’s optional, or how to remove it if you wished.

I’m not sure what the revenue model is, as I’ve never taken any interest in it, but I think one feature is that it profiles your browsing to offer similar sites and so may generate revenue through AdSense et al – effectively the toolbar may have advertising in it, even though one of it’s features is to block pop-ups!

But I think their main concern is that Vista’s IE will have Microsoft’s own Internet Search integrated within it which may eventualy topple Google as the number #1 search engine.
19 July 2006 at 05:59 PM
Kathy Sierra wrote:

What do you mean (boo) for Travis? They’re so… so… what’s the word…adorable. ; )