GoogleRight 2008

Despite it’s many strengths (and already taking 2.8% marketshare in one day, it seems Google Chrome is the devil in disguise…

11. Content licence from you

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

Wow… So when you post a blog through Google Chrome, as I’m doing with this one, you give Google permission to copy it, translate it, modify it, alter it and publicly display and publish it royalty-free. It apparently also means that if you email a friend with a very personal issue via webmail using Google Chrome, Google are allowed to perform it publically.

Google allegedly used similar wording in their chat system Orkut, MSN was shot out of the sky when they attenpted this ‘data grab’ through MSN messenger, and AOL’s AIM again had to rephrase their Terms and Conditions.

Realistically, Google are not going to take all that copyright text and images from your business website and set up in direct competition (unless you happen to be Yahoo! or Microsoft) but keep this in mind as they distribute your content via Google Images, trackers and various ad tools.

Advice? Use at your own risk!

Google Chrome have 2.8% of the market quickly overtaking Opera and catching up already with Safari.

Whether or not this will last is anyone’s guess, how much of this percentage is created by people ‘just trying it out?’