Me either... I point blank refuse to have Google crap on my PC and refuse to use their search engine. I don't give a toss what anyone says, Google is EVIL and seeks purely to profit from everyone's information, which most often is gathered covertly and via dubious methods: IE, google analytics, which gathers data on peoples online activities/site visits without consent.

To me, Google is as invasive as CCTV cameras in toilets... getting your tonsils removed through your armpits, so it'll be a cold day in hell before I install Google's Chrome on any PC in this household.

Uh, oh... that black van with the darkened windows and a G on the doors is outside again.  

Indeedy starkers, in fact, the other day, I spent mostly checking the HJT forums, looking for a way to kill the copy-book Google virus.. it's gone now, but I didn't go to any sites, I got it just searching but not clicking on anything

iam with you , i dont trust google chrome. anything that is still in beta is unstable..dont care what critics say. the most stable would be FF and opera 

Sorry guys, I found this and had to post it

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wicked

Well I for one, love Chrome, and I have used Google since forever...just my 2 cents worth!!

Google Chrome is just a new born baby. So, the features Chrome has are good enough for a new browser. It's clear that Google is seriously thinking about the web browser. So, we can expect in near future Chrome would include all the options and features it's missing right now. I would not be surprised, if I found Chrome as the no. 1 browser in near future.

I've known some Web devs, but the last time I got to look over that their working shoulders was when the fresh grads in our shop were telling everyone that Yahoo was over and showing us the Google search page. It's the third-party part of the data collection that really rubs me the wrong way--smells like a potential online privacy analog to 'mortgage-backed securities.'

My real complaint is with myself because I want to stop 'Googling' but there just doesn't seem to be a search engine anywhere nearly as good. That new Google ex-pat project (weird name I can't remember) seems like Live Search, but even more pushy in its 'helpfulness.' I'd consider going back to Yahoo, but the stupidly busy page is just too annoying. Frakkin' real world, always forcing a fella to make comprises between high-falutin' values and base appetites...

Well, if you're really bored, you can always waste time dropping random searches into Ms. Dewey. Just as evil, but far more distracting - {G}

Jonnan

For work I use IE8 (still beta) -- much faster than IE7, but not as fast as Opera.  

Yahoo search does me just fine... I trust Yahoo a little more than I do Google... but not as far as I could throw 'em.

I take it you've never tried to modify your search string to clarify what you're looking for more than once a minute.  (I don't remember exactly what Yahoo's timeout is, but it's far too low.  And then they lock me out of the system for 999 seconds.  What's up with THAT?)

Nah... I just key in what I'm looking for and go with the flow.  Most Often I find it, but I'm never tempted to go over to Google if I don't.

*Edit*  Just curious... your nick wouldn't be cos you're an aspiriring Presidential shoe thrower, by any chance???