Why I Hate Google Chrome…

Update 1: Thanks Mohan, Balu, Vishwa, Sahil and Priya for your comments…Thanks to those who suggested workarounds(or may be the work-straightlines to begin with).

Anyways my point is this - The big G uses Chrome as a device to pump search queries onto itself at the cost of not giving its users(save the tech savvy, uber cool Vishwa - May his tribe increase) a real choice between a multitude of engines.

And to think of it…this is the same G which cried foul against the big MSFT when they combined their desktop search and MSN Live search in Vista….remember?

And regarding me…shall always remain a passionate flock user… If I have any problems with flock all I do is shout out to @evanhamilton

Also do read this article from WSJ to understand why Firefox is posing a threat to the number of searches at G.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123655166177765433.html?mod=yahoo_hs&ru=yahoo

This article basically says that the number of searches at G or maybe any other place… is so high because people dont remember site names and are comfortable searching google and landing there…FF changes all that.

Have you tried Google Chrome? If not, download it from downloads.google.com.

Now I will tell you why I hate google chrome.

If you are using Firefox(or Flock) to browse this page, can you see that searchbar on the top right? Yes the same searchbar with drop downs where you can search from multiple search engines at once? For instance you can choose Wikipedia and directly give your search term there, or search directly from yahoo or maybe youtube.

This had become such browser standard(unwritten) that even Apple Safari provided it … and hold it … the big evil boy of Sofware Competition also provided it. Which meant you could search from Internet explorer directly on Google, Yahoo or Microsoft’s own Livesearch.

Now circa 2008. Google comes up with chrome and does a total UI redesign of the browser.(Looks neat, ok) but then look to the right top…Where is that search box?

OK, now the “DO NO EVIL” folks tell you to directly key in the search term on the url bar and they would search it for you. Wait do you give me the option to parallely search from multiple places? Nope..You tell me to choose a default search engine and ask me to use that. Very good, and you have chosen it as google for me. Now what if I have to choose wikipedia for the odd search, and say youtube for that even search, or flickr for that prime numbered search. No. I cant do that you say. You tell me type it on the URL bar, either way it will search the big G and give me my results from wiki amongst the the first few links.

Thanks Big G…but why should I search you to reach Wikipedia or any other place for that matter. FF used to allow me everybody else allows me…Why not you?

Of course, every redirection from you is counted as one search and in this game…the metric for comparison is number of searches! Voila Big G…