Google Pays Bloggers To Promote Chrome?

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I know the "paying bloggers" controversy is supposed to be the big news here but I'm more surprised that Google, the king of web advertising, uses an outside ad company. :eek:

The first is that in at least one case a blogger’s post linked to Google in seeming violation of Google’s policy against so-called “paid links.” Sullivan’s bigger beef is that the content of the posts themselves consists of a video ad and some barely sensical text — the kind that of thing that Google is trying to flush out of its search results by tweaking its algorithms.
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who cares -- chrome actually IS the fastest/easiest out there of them all, so I'm okay with this.


When it turns into a crap browser, slows down, only then will I feel outrage.
 
Google PAYS for promoting Chrome??
Where is MY check dude???
I have been "spreading the word" about Chrome since day 1.

There is a downside to the constant update cycle. I'm primarily a Linux user and I have found sometimes an update will break certain things you use a browser for. But usually the next update will fix it.
 
Yea, Chrome really IS the best browser out there right now!

So, where do I find the web form so I can enter my info and Google can send me my brown nosing pay-off. Is it Firefox compatible?
 
Does this mean I will get sued for telling my friend not to use chrome (or firefox)?

Its no faster than anything else [H] on chrome...>1s [H] on IE9 >1s...[H] on fireturd...>1s. It isn't secure and it has an annoying interface like the stupid way it handles favorites. Plus all the people championing it do it in an iritating way. :p
 
lol So they had to pay people for positive reviews? That doesn't surprise me.


Chrome blows IMO
 
This should surprise me but doesn't. Google's business is about collecting information to better sell advertising with. 99% of people using Google anything don't realize any of this, so the more people they can get to run Chrome the better for them, so it's a good investment for them. It's also why I avoid every Google product like a plague diseased, ten foot tall rat that also has rabies and is bleeding rectally.
 
Am I the only one not on this Chrome bandwagon? IE is my main browser, followed by firefox.

Forums or product research is on Firefox, online billing or buying stuff is on IE. For some reason I don't trust Firefox and only IE.
 
I'm starting to like Chrome less as time goes. I don't like seeing multiple processes taking up 100MB of memory. Anyone else have this problem?
 
Where do I tell them how and where to send my check?
 
The closest I get to Chrome is SRWare Iron. I also dumped Firefox for Palemoon.
 
yixi said:
I'm starting to like Chrome less as time goes. I don't like seeing multiple processes taking up 100MB of memory. Anyone else have this problem?
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I have that but its far from a problem as I have 8 gigs of ram.
 
yixi said:
I'm starting to like Chrome less as time goes. I don't like seeing multiple processes taking up 100MB of memory. Anyone else have this problem?
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This is Chrome's primary strength.
Each browser session runs in it's own memory space. If one crashes it is less likely to crash the entire browser (and PC if you use windowz)
I would say 90% of the issues I run into with Chrome is FLASH related. But issues (crashed session) is very very rare now a days.
 
I have the same issues: The only issues that I am running into with Chrome as my main browser is the occasional (and sometimes frequent) crash of Shockwave Player. Not too big of a deal, though.

It's less of a memory hog than Firefox - which, up until recently, was actually fairly conservative.

But, why all the controversy over Google paying bloggers to promote Chrome? It's basically the same thing as any other company to promote a product.
 
I fail at multi-quotes ..., sigh ...

yixi said:
I'm starting to like Chrome less as time goes. I don't like seeing multiple processes taking up 100MB of memory. Anyone else have this problem?
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The last time I looked to see how much RAM apps use was when I had 1 GB in early XP days.

RAM is there to be used. What's the point of having any amount of RAM just to look at it and say "Yay, I got 85% RAM free!!!"
 
yixi said:
I'm starting to like Chrome less as time goes. I don't like seeing multiple processes taking up 100MB of memory. Anyone else have this problem?
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I have that problem. But I also have 8GB of ram so 100MB is nothing.
 
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