[9h1d9j809s]

> I think it's pretty ludicrous that so many people are willing to let an advertising company basically re-write the way that every computer on the web

First, to call Google an advertising company makes no sense. It's a tech company. You don't call a newspaper an advertising company either.

Second, there were people involved in designing this, not just an anonymous corporation. You can actually see their names in the proposals. It's a good design, that's why it has been adopted.

[steveklabnik]

> First

How does Google make money again? Newspaper companies are advertising companies, especially given the quality of the news lately. ;)

> Second

Absolutely, and I don't mean to denigrate their technical efforts. I'm glad people want to move the web forward. I'm just recommending caution.

> It's a good design, that's why it has been adopted.

Many poor designs have garnered wide adoption in the past, this is not inherently true.

[lazyloop]

Wide adoption of SPDY also seems like quite an overstatement, a few big players have been trying it, but the only number we have so far is 339 SSL certificates used with SPDY-enabled servers in may 2012. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2012/05/02/may-2012-web-se...

[md224]

A Google recruiter actually told me that Google is "basically an advertising company." Then again, he was recruiting for an AdWords-related position, so his viewpoint may have been skewed.