I am getting more and more sceptical to using any products from Google. I love their simplicity, but for Google it is all about indexing information about you. I try to be quite practical about it, I only use them when there isn’t anything better around. So for that reason I still use Google for searches, maps, chats and mails. I don’t use Picasaweb or their online office applications.
When it comes to their newly released browser, Chrome, I have not tried it yet. I didn’t get that far. The license told me not to accept it:
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.
By using the browser to write a personal blog entry, Google would have ownership to the content. WTF? Imagine you something worse. You edit web pages at work, and suddently your company/office/organization doesn’t have the full ownership of the information any more. A mistake from Google? Of course not. But when they saw that they wouldn’t get away with it, they changed the license pretty fast.
What scares me is how fast people have started using it, just 2-3 days after release, Betanews could report that Google’s own analytics engine Google Analytics had started tracking Chrome. A Google Analytics report run by BetaNews at about 2:00 pm on Sept. 5 gave Chrome a 6.83% browser share, in contrast to 42.85% for Firefox (all versions and platforms), 39.38% for Internet Explorer (all versions), 4.63% for Safari (all platforms), and 3.97% for Opera (all platforms). All additional browsers got lumped together under “other.” I guess that means that a lot of computer technicans were fast to try out the new browser. Question is will they continue using it?
Net Applications’ hourly statistics for estimated worldwide Web browser usage share, conducted at around 2:00 pm today — showed that Chrome achieved its peak penetration of 1.73% of the world’s HTTP requests on Sept. 5 at 4:00 am EDT. The statistics also show the useage of the browser is going down, and that perhaps users are going back to their old prefered browser.
Having said that, I am impressed how fast Chrome managed to pass the Opera browser in usage.
I just bought my first iPhone application after being tipped about LDAPeople by alex_ny on my article No LDAP client for iPhone 
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