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Google Pack fails to impress
News Google Pack beta, which was announced during the closing keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Friday, packages Google software with other desktop applications, such as Firefox and Adobe Reader.
[January 9, 2006, 16:45]
Google Pack fails to impress
Talkback google pack fails to impress hmmm is google about impressing people .how about impressing to death other internet giant player like msn and yahoo .is that all you can give/show to those giants ?
[January 16, 2006, 11:00]
Google Pack fails to impress
Talkback The Google Pack wasn't supposed to be any sort of revoutionary step forward in innovation -- it was just supposed to be a nice way to get a bunch of essential utilities and other good stuff onto their computers in one fell swoop.
[January 18, 2006, 3:58]
Google Pack fails to impress
Talkback Sorry Google Pack, better luck next time I downloaded this to my laptop as a test over what I currently had loaded and I must say it slowed my system to a crawl. This was due way in part to the NAV:SE.
[January 11, 2006, 4:26]
Google Pack fails to impress
Talkback The pack falls in the middle category. "Google's decision to launch a desktop software bundle has left many industry observers underwhelmed and confused about the company's long-term strategy. Google has this policy that their employees should...
[January 11, 2006, 14:10]
Google Pack fails to impress
Talkback People forget that real computer users use OS/X or Linux that have all of this stuff bundled with it - just add Open office and various other free/open source packages and you have the ideal machine. One day, people will awaken and realise there is...
[July 20, 2006, 17:27]
Google Pack fails to impress
Talkback I love the statement that Google has just wrapped a rubberband around the apps, because that is precisely what it is. I think the package kinda sucks. Who doesn't already have this stuff installed? I know that there's better minds there working on...
[January 9, 2006, 17:15]
Google Pack fails to impress
Talkback I wrote earlier that this package sucks, but I am impressed that I got to this link from google. So I think they are pretty good about not hiding from the critics. And that is always a cool thing. But they are still sorta new in the scheme of...
[January 9, 2006, 17:19]
Google Pack fails to impress
Talkback say what you like but I would like to see them improve on existing services like Gmaps, only the UK/US/Jap are covered, thats no good.
[January 9, 2006, 21:02]
Google Pack fails to impress
Talkback It makes sense for Google to try to widen its base beyond the tech crowd. I couldn't have stated it better than this dude: "GPack is aimed at people like my mom, who have no idea what they're doing, but check their e-mail and websites compulsively.
[January 11, 2006, 2:41]
Google Pack fails to impress
Talkback I was already fed up with Acrobat wanting to install the things like Yahoo toolbar. I've seen that with several programs recently. WTF! If I wanted to install these additional programs I would have downloaded and installed them myself, why waste...
[January 10, 2006, 0:09]
Google Pack fails to impress
Talkback This is Google erasing Microsoft from as many computers as possible. GOOD IDEA!
[January 9, 2006, 17:24]
Google Pack fails to impress
Talkback Why did Google choose to add one of the most bloated and performance lacking pieces of software available? Foxit Reader is far superior to Adobe's Acrobat. It's truly beyond me. For those of you not familiar with Foxit Reader, it is a small, fast...
[January 11, 2006, 18:39]
Google Pack fails to impress
Talkback Bundling Trillian with Google Talk is an admission that Google Talk isn't all-that-exciting, and RealPlayer .come on Hopefully, Google won't pull this move and try to push useless software to users (well, not any more than the RealPlayer move, at...
[January 9, 2006, 20:09]
Google tops new audience-measurement chart
News But the company's conclusion that Google leads the search site pack, with Yahoo close behind, is unlikely to provoke controversy. Whatever its originality, early numbers from qSearch, which include data collected since the beginning of the year...
[April 30, 2003, 9:07]
Don't dismiss Google's low-key strategy
Leader To be fair, what did get revealed - a call for standards and support in the developing world, paid-for video and a bundle of free PC software (Google Pack) - would look particularly pallid under any circumstances, and comparing it with the febrile...
[January 9, 2006, 15:15]
Microsoft releases PDF add-on
News In the meantime, the OpenDocument Foundation is keeping its own Microsoft Office plug-in under wraps until next year, but may eventually distribute it as a download tied to Google's software bundle, Google Pack, according to Foundation founder...
[September 13, 2006, 13:40]
Antitrust concerns prompt Vista search changes
News The changes are coming with the first service pack to Windows Vista. The software maker also said it has provided an interim test version of the service pack to the technical committee that was appointed by the court overseeing Microsoft's consent...
[September 13, 2007, 8:36]
Google really is prepping its GDrive
Blog The evidence lies in an online, recently-updated Google Pack file that refers to a product, called GDrive, that "provides reliable storage for all of your files, including photos, music and documents [and] allows you to access your files from...
[January 30, 2009, 14:51]
Google gets glitzy to close CES
News Google Pack, a free service that bundles and automatically installs and maintains Google software and other programs, including Firefox and Adobe Reader, was the next product to take a bow. Google co-founder Larry Page shared his keynote stage at...
[January 9, 2006, 8:15]
