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At this week’s Webinnovators event (review) I particularly enjoyed the DNSstuff.com demonstration. Following up on a question I posed during the demo, I spent some time at OpenDNS.com yesterday. While perusing the blog, I came across a post titled Google turns the page… in a bad way, which proved disturbing on a number of fronts.
David Ulevitch at OpeDNS had this to say about Google’s new software that comes pre-installed on Dell machines:
In short, Google and Dell have teamed up to install some software on Dell computers that borders on being spyware. I say spyware because it’s hard to figure out what it is and is even harder to remove. It also breaks all kinds of OpenDNS functionality. At the end, I’ll tell you what we’re doing about it.
167 comments on the post, which is informative and effectively goes to show how paid search can ruin the user experience.
