Re: Changing the Social Contract of the Web

On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Robin Berjon wrote:
> On 13/03/2013 14:22 , Tobie Langel wrote:
> > On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Appelquist Daniel (UK) wrote:
> > > Actually your example underscores my point
> > > - because part of the expected experience of the Web is now being able to
> > > type search terms into some place on the browser chrome (increasingly the
> > > same place you type addresses) and having search results come up.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Yes. Yet what if this functionality simply shifted to the OS level?
> 
> Users can't tell the difference between something like this at the OS 
> level or at the browser level. It's "on the computer".

Precisely my point.

If OS search has web search built-in, then the OS is the browser.

--tobie

Received on Wednesday, 13 March 2013 14:35:57 UTC