AOL Desktop Search
p2pnet.net News:- Following Google’s desktop search launch, AOL says it’ll have one in its new browser, currently under beta.
An AOL spokeswoman “declined to provide more details about the desktop searching features of the AOL browser, which is based on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer,” says the IDG News Service.
The Google version has provoked very loud privacy alarm bells, even though loads of people still think Google is a really nice app set up by a crew of honest (if now stinking rich) young developers.
Not too many people are similarly sentimental about AOL, however.
Au contraire, significant numbers of surfers, particularly those who’ve been online for more than three or four years, place AOL’s trust level on a par with the RIAA’s, say.
So how many will go for an AOL browser that gives AOL free entry to their computers and, therefore, their contents?
They’ll probably have to go back to getting the mailman to deliver the new browser on the hated AOL discs.
Or are they still doing that?
Oh, useless CD.
Thrown out, but still you return
Like a bad cold sore….
– haiku by Mikeh
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See:-
AOL browser – AOL to have desktop searching in new browser, IDG News Service, October 15, 2004
really nice – Google Desktop Search: Spyware?, p2pnet, October 16, 2004
AOL discs – No More AOL CDs
October 17th, 2004 at 7:36 pm
- significant numbers of surfers, particularly those who’ve been online for more than three or four years, place AOL’s trust level on a par with the RIAA’s, say
i remember when aol was a big hacker target and only a total dork would even think of using it
October 17th, 2004 at 8:17 pm
nothing has changed =)
October 18th, 2004 at 3:02 am
Everything has changed. And it is not funny. Companies can float these kinds of schemes, lie about their good intentions – helping the consumer get a better experience – and they are believed. It is plain, it is blatant but no one cares.
It is alarming.