DISQUS

Thanks Kelly, deal.

Yeah with the Google stuff I could have elaborated even further, that was pretty funny as well.

Yeah definitely. I wonder how much longer he stays, I think even internally they must get a little tried of this.

Wow nice!

not off the top of my head, but i'll keep you in mind if I do hear anything.

Thanks Mike. And welcome back :)

Right -- But I don't know, but it sounds like you agree with me more than Dan, Peter. That's my point, all these sites writing about everything is a part of the way it works. And as you note has worked forever with newspapers and television and the like.

And I'm not all worked up. If I were, I would be swearing, see: http://parislemon.com/2009/02/you-stay-classy-eng...

google has yet to prove its social prowess to us all. we keep waiting...

ha ha yeah i should implement facebook connect if i'm going to gush about it.

awesome footnote by the way.

Okay, a fringe case :) But I assume you're fully off IE now right?

What did you switch back from? AN who came up with bitchboy?

While for some things I agree, for most things I still don't agree. Rumors, as long as they're clearly stated as such, are quite often some of the best facilitators of conversation. And I know more than a few startups who have added new features/services based on such conversations. But just in case, I can start VBrumors :)

Yeah I know this didn't start in the game of telephone, but the main problem is that it STARTED that game -- a game which a lot of people play when TechCrunch is involved. I don't know TC's rumor or sourcing policy, so I won't go into that, but yeah, it obviously would have been good to get another source or some kind of firm answer here, but more than just TC are guilty of doing that in the past, and it's not so black and white is all I'm saying. (though, as I said above, this was a really bad case.)

Yeah Lena, and I skim too obviously, but if you skim and share something with a strong opinion about it based on something you haven't read, then you're back in the 3rd category (not you of course, just in general :) )

While I know what you mean, I don't agree with that. Sometimes those make for some damn provocative titles, and sometimes blog posts really do ask questions. There's a lot of reasons why I think they're acceptable, your problem isn't really with the title, it's with publishing rumors.

Okay, but the web browser nowadays is integral to every operating system, there is no way around that. I would definitely say Safari is an integral part of OS X, therefore Google Search is an integral part of the OS X user experience.

As for market share, a fair point about Macs, but we also aren't seeing some huge entity switch to all Macs in a cash deal. That would be pretty crazy as well. Also, I think you'd have a hard time finding people to argue that Live Search is better than Google in terms of the product.

If you really believe Facebook pays tech bloggers to back them up in these matters than I suggest you stay away from the Internet because you're going to drive yourself insane.

Okay but is their intent really to take those pictures from you and destroy your livelihood? It was poor communication and as I said maybe poor wording, I just don't believe FB is going to say they own your pictures and not let you do with you want with them as you see fit.

Thanks Melody. I definitely agree that changing it back was an odd play, but it was the ultimate quick fix so they can focus on what they should have done in the first place: preparing coherent rationale for any change.

Unfortunately, not all blogs are created equal :)

"Apple and Google are one company." Okay, you're right.

Your comment is hilarious almost to the point of not responding, but, I'll just ask, have you ever read any of my other posts? I've been accused of a lot of things, but I can assure you, never once of being part of the Microsoft propaganda machine! I love that.

Yes, I'm just so grateful for a disparaging mention and link. Or were you "having a fun" with that comment?

I wish I could pull off saying that as good as the President.

ha ha, looks like they fixed that. fixed my name too! fixing things after the fact is the new black.