Kris Kennaway wrote: > jef moskot wrote: >> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >>> I must have missed something, how would running the Chrome browser >>> collect our valuable data? >> >> What other purpose would Google have for creating this software? >> Everything Google does is attempt to collect more data, whether it's >> collecting the world's email or convincing corporations, universities, >> private citizens, and everyone else that storing all their documents >> and records on Google servers is a great idea. > > > Whether this browser directly collects more data or simply assists them > > with their other collection methods, there's no other reasonable > > explanation for the creation of the tool. > > The big selling point of this browser is the performance of its > Javascript engine compared to other existing browsers. Javascript is > what is used to run the client side of "web applications"...like Google > Docs, and other Google applications. > > Pushing the development of Javascript is directly tied to google's > ability to launch more complex web-based applications in the future. > > As for google collecting private data, this browser apparently does no > more of that than other existing browsers, according to: > > http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-communication/
Another reason: the javascript engine in chrome is also ported to the ARM architecture, so it will give them better performance on ARM-based google android mobile phones. I'm sure you could think of yet more reasons if you tried ;-) Kris _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"