Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Is There A Chrome Conspiracy ????

Yeah, I'm in too. 

GOOGLE CHROME WAS RELEASED!!!!

for windows users: Download!!
(If you want a review, lifehacker just did that)


But I have to raise some concerns here: I hate going into conspiracy theories and such, but as I love massively parallel system ideas, here's one for you:


What if Google used your 1% or 0.0001% of your computer's CPU time ?

What if Google does this to eveyone using Google Chrome ?

What if Google just turns off the Googlebot (Google's spider), and just rely on this Massively Parallel System at hand (the Google Chrome User Base...), because we humans are the Best Spiders Ever (we can follow image links, we can filter out spam, etc..) ?

I mean, there's a line between the Storm botnet (computers, infected by a malware program called Storm worm and used for whatever the creators of the malware wanted to use them for), and the Mersenne project (users actively agreed on devoting the spare CPU time to find bigger Mersenne primes(math, I know.. brrr)). 

And That Line Is: Consent. 
But Googlers are a nifty bunch, so I wouldn't be surprised if they started these types of tests already... 

So answer me this question: Do you think Google would harvest that massive and powerful idea of PEOPLE ?

(one little comment, the last couple of days I was thinking about writing a Power Of People framework doing something similar...) 

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