Google � Glowleaf

Sep 02

How Google plans to take over the world

This is how. Its called Google Chrome. And its the new browser.

Even listing its features is impressive. Javascipt bug containment, sandboxing of individual tabs in up to 50 individual threads, allowing you to keep working when a javascript hits the wall. Even if a page crashes, only its tab is lost.

Chrome gears, an open source platform, allowing developers around the world to take what is already a great product and pour their own creativity into it. Its like giving new colors to the artists to play with.

It downloads Google’s own blacklist of phishing sites, and harmful scripts, to warn the user before he gets into any trouble. And even if he does fall into a harmful site, the architecture of the browser contains the harmful code, no leaving him much to play with. And the blacklist is open to anyone, so you can secure all your websites, by not linking to banned sites, or desktop apps, or anything that uses the internet.

It will be really interesting to see how Microsoft will react to this, since she has a long history of wars to keep the huge market share of Internet Explorer. Google’s support on the Firefox browser was enough to eat a 10% of that monopoly, and only time will tell how big a bite Chrome will get. I believe it has the potential to dominate, but Google will not take the aggressive route, the corporate world is still ruthless.

Information is power. And the biggest amount of information floats around the earth, what we call the Internet. Its in constant turmoil, ever changing, ever evolving. Many have tried to control it, with no success.

I like Google. I love the fast relevant searches, spam free huge inbox email. The more-than-you-really-need Analytics. The powerful Adwords. The accurate blog search. I even like Picasa, although I used it only on a single site.

But if someone controls the internet, he will have more power than any dictator ever dreamed of. The subtle, manipulating power like the big Mass Media networks already have. Print something on Times, and its a fact, no questions asked. Say that Iraq has nuclear weapons on CNN, and the whole world believes it.

People are stupid, and believe anything. The bigger the lie, the easier it becomes.

Some have already tried to manipulate Wikipedia. If its written there, its a fact, right? How do you know that no other manipulations than the ones caught exist? You don’t. You can’t know.

There is more content written in the Internet every year, than all the paper books ever printed in the entire history of typography. No one can research all that. I admit it, I only read some news sources. I don’t have the time to research everything I read. And if those news sources are twisted, which they are, I learn a bunch of new lies every day.

If everyone believes in a lie, then it becomes the truth.

And if someone can manipulate the whole world’s view on a fact, then the twisted version becomes the reality.

Do you honestly believe that this clown ruled the most powerful country in the world?