While I have given up Google Apps (no, it’s not because I fear the Google and it’s tight grip on my data – I’ll write a blog post about why I left Google Apps a bit later), Google still gets used an awful lot here at Drake Towers. Google the Search Engine is the de facto here. Then there’s Google Maps, Google Reader, Feedburner, Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics, Google AdSense, YouTube, and so on.
I now use Google Public DNS on the Dell laptop at home and as a secondary DNS server for my MDaemon mail server. And now I’ve converted to Google Chrome, Google’s efforts to produce a fast web browser designed for simplicity. And it works exceptionally well on Windows. And now OS X. Despite Chrome being beta on my work Mac, I now use it as my primary browser despite a few kinks (the main one being the passwords are not saved if you’re browsing a site that uses an expired or self-signed certificate – I’ve filed the bug with the Chromium bug report system).
My dependence on Google will not end there either. While I have no intention of running the Chrome OS on this PC (although if I had a netbook I would probably consider it), I am still very tempted by the T-Mobile G2 Touch which runs the Android 1.5 (at the time of writing) platform. I’ll be carrying Google in my pocket too.
