Internet Explorer Meets it’s Match, Google knows all
Feb 18, 2008 Uncategorized
I wasn’t planning on writing today, just because it’s a statutory holiday and all, but I saw something today that made me laugh. In preparing a post for tomorrow detailing the Omniture Excel Client, I noticed that when you revert your Internet Explorer 7 settings back to default Google notices! If anyone was ever afraid that Google’s starting down the lines of becoming Big Brother, your fears may be warranted.
Perhaps, but only if you let Google into your system in the first place.
If you combine Google Desktop Search and Internet Explorer 7, you’ll likely have opted to default Google as your search engine of choice. If you revert your settings in Internet Explorer back to defaults, IE7 will want to revert your search engine default as well. The engineers at Google are way ahead of their Redmond counterparts, having built-in monitoring of these settings into Google Desktop Search. Have a look at this:
Now that’s what I call protecting your stakeholders interests! Good work, Google!
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