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Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 13:57 David Rosenthal The problem was it was kind of this casualty of the browser wars with Microsoft and Internet Explorer and everything that killed Netscape, and so up until this time, kind of, 2001, JavaScript existed, but, like, it wasn't super popular.
- ▶ 15:53 Ben Gilbert The origin of the XML HTTP request is a part of Internet Explorer, first implemented by Microsoft, and used in this part of Outlook called Outlook Web Access.
- ▶ 16:07 Ben Gilbert When I worked for my high school, I could log in on any computer into my Outlook through their Web Access, and that thing used Ajax, and I think it only worked in Internet Explorer.
- ▶ 18:11 David Rosenthal But there's also another reason, and that's Microsoft, because Google was doing great printing money, AdWords search, greatest product, greatest business of all time, but they've got a big risk, which is that everything about Google,…
- ▶ 18:40 Ben Gilbert So to this point, over 90% of Google search queries were done on Windows PCs, and 90% were done in Internet Explorer running on those PCs.
- ▶ 20:22 Ben Gilbert Other than the fact that we control IE, and at least for now, that's really important.
- ▶ 36:49 David Rosenthal I think is my favorite part of our first Google episode earlier this year, that the whole thing ended up just being a Trojan horse downloader to get Google toolbar installed on Internet Explorer on people's systems.
- ▶ 1:41:54 David Rosenthal Well, one was Microsoft to kneecap them by making changes to Internet Explorer or Windows or whatnot.
- ▶ 1:57:23 David Rosenthal Internet Explorer.
- ▶ 2:02:45 David Rosenthal Imagine if 90% of Google happened on Internet Explorer.
- ▶ 2:03:47 David Rosenthal And also, it's clear, web apps, JavaScript, Ajax, very important thing, and Internet Explorer isn't keeping up with the technology.
- ▶ 2:10:12 David Rosenthal The kind of people who are gonna go home for Thanksgiving in a couple months and install it on all their family's computers and say, you need to stop using Internet Explorer right now for all of these reasons, Ben, that you just listed.
- ▶ 2:10:59 Ben Gilbert And then after that, then it really started eating away at Internet Explorer's market share.
- ▶ 2:11:15 David Rosenthal I mean, it totally liberates Google from Internet Explorer and Microsoft.
- ▶ 2:11:21 David Rosenthal When Chrome launched in 2008, Internet Explorer had almost 70% market share of browsers, and Firefox had most of the rest.
- ▶ 2:11:35 David Rosenthal By 2012, so four years after launch, Chrome and Internet Explorer are now tied for market share with about 30% each.
- ▶ 2:11:44 David Rosenthal So Internet Explorer has gone from 70% down to 30%, and this is both Chrome on the desktop side, but you're now also well into the rise of mobile, and so Apple's mobile Safari is now becoming huge,
- ▶ 2:12:09 David Rosenthal Internet Explorer is down to 15%.
- ▶ 2:12:15 David Rosenthal And Internet Explorer is basically dead at this point, and today it truly is dead.
- ▶ 2:13:08 Ben Gilbert In a lot of years, it was actually faster than Chrome, and they would go back and forth, and it really spurred Apple, who was already a steward of WebKit, and they sort of had their own competitive response to Microsoft after Steve Jobs…
- ▶ 2:13:30 David Rosenthal What the investment was Internet Explorer will become default.
- ▶ 2:14:39 David Rosenthal Google Chrome Frame was a plugin for Internet Explorer that replaced IE's JavaScript engine and pulled in the Chrome V-A JavaScript engine, and I think also WebKit.
- ▶ 2:15:04 David Rosenthal Of America and the world who were stuck with Internet Explorer.
- ▶ 2:15:08 David Rosenthal This is the only reason that IE hung on to market share for so long was just.
- ▶ 2:15:14 David Rosenthal For all those poor souls, Google was there for you with the Google Chrome frame plugin that let you run Chrome quality web apps within Internet Explorer.
- ▶ 3:01:19 Ben Gilbert If mobile Safari was the new Internet Explorer and their entire franchise was at risk of Apple saying, and we're gonna point traffic over here now.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:40:34 Ben Gilbert Okay, so Microsoft's got Internet Explorer.
- ▶ 2:41:31 Ben Gilbert Google's paranoid about Microsoft entering and using Internet Explorer as a weapon.
- ▶ 2:43:59 David Rosenthal When users are downloading programs, what apps used to be called, to run on their computers, Google is paying the maker of that program to include a Trojan horse payload of the Google toolbar, which will then become a Trojan horse that…
- ▶ 2:45:19 Ben Gilbert On Internet Explorer.
- ▶ 3:01:58 David Rosenthal All of our users through Internet Explorer.