Comments on: Google shows no love for Mac users http://inluminent.com/2005/11/16/google-shows-no-love-for-mac-users/ my comments on business, marketing, advertising, email, CAN-SPAM, selling as a profession, photography, computers and other stuff... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:43:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: FuzzyBlog » New Google Deskbar Rocks http://inluminent.com/2005/11/16/google-shows-no-love-for-mac-users/comment-page-1/#comment-4030 FuzzyBlog » New Google Deskbar Rocks Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:58:04 +0000 http://inluminent.com/2005/11/16/google-shows-no-love-for-mac-users/#comment-4030 [...] My oh my.  I’m just plain astonished at the rich, frothy goodness that is Google Sidebar / Google Desktop 2.0 / whatever the heck they call it.  This thing is bloody well rocking my world.  Yes I know that I’m the last person on the planet to try this new thing from Google which came out more than 6 months ago.  And I agree, like Inluminent says so well, that there need to be Mac versions of Google stuff.  That said, given that I’m a professional search guy, I’ve seen this type of thing before.  Verity did it.  Fulcrum did it.  DTSearch did it.  Others have done it.  None of them seem to have done the overall issues of local search as well (note — I haven’t looked at Yahoo’s stuff or MSN’s stuff yet; when I have time).  Google really nailed this one well. [...] [...] My oh my.  I’m just plain astonished at the rich, frothy goodness that is Google Sidebar / Google Desktop 2.0 / whatever the heck they call it.  This thing is bloody well rocking my world.  Yes I know that I’m the last person on the planet to try this new thing from Google which came out more than 6 months ago.  And I agree, like Inluminent says so well, that there need to be Mac versions of Google stuff.  That said, given that I’m a professional search guy, I’ve seen this type of thing before.  Verity did it.  Fulcrum did it.  DTSearch did it.  Others have done it.  None of them seem to have done the overall issues of local search as well (note — I haven’t looked at Yahoo’s stuff or MSN’s stuff yet; when I have time).  Google really nailed this one well. [...]

]]> By: Christian http://inluminent.com/2005/11/16/google-shows-no-love-for-mac-users/comment-page-1/#comment-3975 Christian Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:06:26 +0000 http://inluminent.com/2005/11/16/google-shows-no-love-for-mac-users/#comment-3975 OK, I don't get it. I love Firefox because it does work. On everything. Yes, I love macs as much as the next mac geek, but Safari just doesn't cut it. Why continue the love affair? I thought I was going to bolster my comments with analysis (from a leading local news Web site) that Mozilla was robbing so much market from Safari that it becomes less and less a segment worth catering to, but I was surprised to find the Safari market growing (along with Mac OS). Just a tad, but a growth, none-the-less. I can't exactly cross browser us against OS but I can compare them. It seems that since Jan 1, 3.4% of our site visitors use Safari, out of the 5.7% that us Mac OS. Since Oct. 1, 4.1% use Safari, out of 6.1% that use Mac OS. Oh, well. I still love Firefox. OK, I don’t get it. I love Firefox because it does work. On everything. Yes, I love macs as much as the next mac geek, but Safari just doesn’t cut it. Why continue the love affair?

I thought I was going to bolster my comments with analysis (from a leading local news Web site) that Mozilla was robbing so much market from Safari that it becomes less and less a segment worth catering to, but I was surprised to find the Safari market growing (along with Mac OS). Just a tad, but a growth, none-the-less. I can’t exactly cross browser us against OS but I can compare them. It seems that since Jan 1, 3.4% of our site visitors use Safari, out of the 5.7% that us Mac OS. Since Oct. 1, 4.1% use Safari, out of 6.1% that use Mac OS.

Oh, well. I still love Firefox.

]]> By: mardoen http://inluminent.com/2005/11/16/google-shows-no-love-for-mac-users/comment-page-1/#comment-3974 mardoen Sat, 19 Nov 2005 02:15:03 +0000 http://inluminent.com/2005/11/16/google-shows-no-love-for-mac-users/#comment-3974 I haven't used Google Analytics myself, but the problem might be that they are using a canvas page element for the graphics instead of loading external image files (I don't know if they do). Safari has at least one bug related to canvas and CSS usage; there is an easy workaround for this though (until the WebKit team fixes bug 4884). See http://dekstop.de/weblog/2005/09/safari_canvas_bug/ -- it would be nice if someone checked if they are indeed using canvas. I haven’t used Google Analytics myself, but the problem might be that they are using a canvas page element for the graphics instead of loading external image files (I don’t know if they do). Safari has at least one bug related to canvas and CSS usage; there is an easy workaround for this though (until the WebKit team fixes bug 4884).

See http://dekstop.de/weblog/2005/09/safari_canvas_bug/ — it would be nice if someone checked if they are indeed using canvas.

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