What's Google Up to?

[howeird]

Google announced yesterday on their blog that today they would be releasing a new browser, called Chrome. But instead of releasing it, Google has wiped the download page, setting it to bounce you back to their home page. Yesterday's blog article said to check back today for more info, but the only new info on there is shameless pimping of their role in the RNC and DNC.

Google has been pretty sloppy about announcing pretty much everything in their product line, so I guess I should not be surprised. But I wonder how much I can trust a browser which has its download and beta test sites erased and their caches cleared the day it is supposed to be released.

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[bovil.livejournal.com]

The sloppy part is that they leaked the existence of Chrome in an unrelated document. It wasn't originally supposed to release today.

[howeird]

I see they have indulged in some rewriting of history - the blog entry I read this morning which clearly said they were releasing Chrome after a webinfo session at 11 this morning, now says they hit the "send" button too soon which made public a link to a comic book (they call it a cartoon, but it's not) meant to explain to Google employees what Chrome was all about.

They did release the beta:
http://www.google.com/chrome

Seeing a correction wouldn't bother me, but changing yesterday's blog posting to make a major mistake look like an insignificant boo boo makes me cringe. I wonder what other caches they have messed with.