Google’s Speedier Web
November 17th, 2009 by ComputerBob
Regular readers of this Journal know that I’ve had mixed feelings about Google for a long time.
On the one hand, Google provides the world’s most popular search engine — and several online applications that millions of people use — all for free.
On the other hand, there are very few things in life that are really free. Google’s business model involves making money from selling targeted advertising, so it has a built-in conflict of interest when it comes to protecting its users’ privacy.
In fact, over the years, we’ve seen many examples of how that conflict of interest has caused Google to act in ways that have angered privacy rights organizations.
That’s why, as an educated consumer, I try to use as few of Google’s services as I possible, while providing Google with as little of my personal information as possible. For example, I use Scroogle and ixquick as my main search engines of choice, as I’ve mentioned before, and I still haven’t even tried Google’s Chrome browser, due to privacy concerns.
But Google is currently working on a invention that all of us might eventually be happy to use: A new Internet protocol that would replace HTTP, and could double our Web-browsing speeds.
As always — and like some of the comments that appear after the story — I’m both skeptical and hopeful about this new development.
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Coding, Consumer Info, Google, Internet, Security, Technology, Web Development