But I still think there's weight to the criticism offered by LePage. Is there convenience to the unified address bar in Chrome? Sure. I don't like Microsoft, but for once, they don't deserve that blame. But seriously, if someone sets Bing up in their Chrome browser, and Microsoft ends up inadvertently data-mining that user because of the way Google designed its behavior, that's not as a result of anything Microsoft did. I got a chuckle out of the pretty unlikely picture of someone downloading Google's browser then switching the searching engine to Bing (I dunno for sure, but that's gotta be pretty unlikely). They're just more interested in the task, not the tool.īut I'd also suggest that any "feature" (even one proclaimed in caps) that's described as W>X>Y>Z pretty much counts as "buried".Īnd on the topic of defaults, just because you can set Bing to be the search provider doesn't undermine the original argument too much, it seems to me. But the people that use defaults aren't idiots. People generally use their browser with default settings. Wrench > "Options" > "Under the Hood" > "Use a suggestion service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar". There's even an option to disable it (you could learn from this M$). Second every keystroke is sent to Google, yes, this again is a FEATURE.
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See for yourself: download Fiddler and type something into the address bar on Chrome and watch how Fiddler reacts when you have Search Suggestions on and off. LePage is only correct in his assertion that IE8 does not send information to anyone when the user types into the address bar. The same behavior occurs in IE8, but only in the search bar. As we suspected, Chrome can be set to send information on every keystroke to Bing (or any other search engine that supports Search Suggestions) instead of Google. We downloaded Fiddler to make some comparisons of our own. The information is being sent so that the search provider can help the user choose a query right in their browser. LePage makes an important mistake in his accusation against Google: his statement should not be "Chrome sends a request back to Google" but it should be "Chrome sends a request back to the search provider." He makes this distinction with IE8 but does not with Chrome. Even though he didn't really elaborate, the reason for the striking difference for IE8's and Chrome's behaviors is really that simple: IE8 has two boxes and Chrome has one. It's worth taking a closer look at LePage's first accusation. Unfortunately, he fails to acknowledge the existence of Google Chrome's Incognito, which disables history tracking, which undercuts his argument. In the second part of the video, LePage demonstrates how Internet Explorer 8 has a privacy feature called InPrivate, a privacy mode to allow browsing without leaving a trace. "I haven't even hit enter yet to load the website and Google is already getting information about the domain and sites I'm visiting." Right after that, he shows how typing something in the address bar in IE8 is very different-nothing is shared with the search provider, according to LePage. "As I start to type an address into the address bar, Fiddler shows that for nearly every character I type, Chrome sends a request back to Google," LePage says. "By keeping these boxes separate, your privacy is better protected and the addresses of the sites you're visiting aren't automatically shared with Microsoft, or anyone else," says IE product manager Pete LePage. Microsoft's first criticism is Chrome's combining the address bar and the search box into a single entry box IE8 keeps those fields separate. The company posted a video, embedded below, on TechNet Edge with the following description: "Watch a demo on how Google Chrome collects every keystroke you make and how Internet Explorer 8 keeps your information private through two address bars and In Private browsing." Microsoft is going on the offensive against Google, accusing the search giant of creating a browser that does not respect user privacy.
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