Chrome EULA - the Comic

Thursday, September 4. 2008

Chrome EULA - the Comic

We noted yesterday that many (most?) of the Chromebloggers were fairly non analytic and blogged on the shiny shiny bits of Chrome (see our post on the matter here) - but a few (like us

) did look under the hood more closely, and noticed that the EULA was somewhat ... interesting. We picked this up yesterday morning UK time, but note that some of the US bloggers (such as Ina Fried) picked it up earller (they were awake - talk about a competitive advantage

Anyway, its all over the blogosphere today. To explain this issue strategically I decided to use a comic format as its all the rage.

Chrome tarnished?

(As it is a p*ss take, I believe it is allowed under Fair Usage as well.)

(Update - Ina Fried reports the EULA has now been changed. Section 11 now reads simply: "11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.". Strategic reasons for a Googlebrowser remains though)

Posted by Alan Patrick in New Search at 08:50 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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you win !

#1 nik butler (Homepage) on 2008-09-04 10:07 (Reply)

simply sexy. u banged the nail right o its head.

end of the "do no evil". Its money and hell yeah its evil.

wonder after all the negative publicity google would need to hire networks like sponsoredreviews and contentxn.com and liks to spread some decent coverage(read controlled!)

#2 Adi on 2008-09-04 13:48 (Reply)

I think it's amazing that no one has noticed just how much extra free publicity Google has managed to generate from including, and then removing, that one sentence.

Call me cynical, but if I were going to generate some serious publicity and then publicly rectify it, then I'd look into using the same mistake that generated all that furore around Google Docs.

#3 Chris on 2008-09-05 09:43 (Reply)

It's a really strange psychological phenomenon actually, cautionary news driving positive publicity.

I discovered this while running the telephone Network Status message at the ISP I work at. If I mentioned we were experiencing performance trouble in Redmond, suddenly a bunch of people from Redmond would sign up.

Upon further inspection and some questioning, I discovered that prior to the message, people either did not know or didn't truely believe we provided service in Redmond until they heard the message. Flaw belies existence, I suppose.

- - Jesse

#3.1 Jesse (Homepage) on 2008-09-06 05:35 (Reply)

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