{"id":73,"date":"2010-12-31T14:48:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T14:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/ubalblog\/2010\/12\/31\/google-dumps-the-caps-lock-key\/"},"modified":"2012-10-19T04:45:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T04:45:31","slug":"google-dumps-the-caps-lock-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/ubalblog\/2010\/12\/31\/google-dumps-the-caps-lock-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Dumps the CAPS LOCK Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[<\/strong>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/images\/weblogs\/mood_happy.gif\" alt=\"Happy\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" border=\"0\" \/> <strong>Mood:<\/strong> Happy&nbsp;<strong>]<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/12\/03\/is-this-the-google-chrome-os-netbooks-keyboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">So Google has produced a new keyboard for their OS computer<\/a>, and in a stunning, albeit self-serving move, they have eliminated the CAPS LOCK key.  Instead you get a dedicated search key.  Guess what you use to search? <\/p>\n<p>Now to say that this has gotten people a little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=google+keyboard+no+caps+lock&amp;amp;ie=utf-8&amp;amp;oe=utf-8&amp;amp;aq=t&amp;amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&amp;amp;client=firefox-a#sclient=psy&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;client=firefox-a&amp;amp;hs=erg&amp;amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-GB%3Aofficial&amp;amp;q=google+chrome+os+keyboard+no+caps+lock&amp;amp;aq=f&amp;amp;aqi=&amp;amp;aql=&amp;amp;oq=&amp;amp;gs_rfai=&amp;amp;pbx=1&amp;amp;fp=9bef8cda26d1a6ec\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">over stimulated<\/a> would be an understatement.  Why just this morning, CBC had a debate feature Grammar Girl and some tech expert debating the usefulness of the CAPS Lock key.<\/p>\n<p>I will be blunt in my analysis, everyone is making a mountain out of a molehill.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Google is an industry leader.  People look to them for trends and the like, but what many have failed to point out is that this is a <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">branding<\/span> exercise.  Has Google replaced the CAPS LOCK with some new, more useful key?  Say an interrobang?  Or please unsend that email?  Or how about an egosurfing button to monitor my minute-by-minute popularity?  No. It launches a search engine, most likely Google.  No doubt we will have similar initiatives from Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo in the next few years.  Heck, I also predict Facebook and Twitter will find a way to get one key access to their sites, that doesn&#8217;t involve programming macros, in about the same amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>And really, what is the grievance against the CAPS Lock?  That your grandma can&#8217;t seem to unclick it?  That some snotty, nitpicking jerk on YouTube over uses it?  That the accidental hitting of the caps lock key as you type, cause a whole sentence (GASP) to be in CAPS?  Well ignore the first one, she&#8217;s 80 and doesn&#8217;t know any better.  And she did make you cookies when you were a kid.  Ignore the second one too.  Really, they are clueless and have no life.  You will not change them.  In the third case, imagine how helpful it will be to have a browser window complete with search engine popping up every few minutes instead of the all caps sentence.  How useful!<\/p>\n<p>I also do not think, as others do, that this will be the end of CAPS LOCK key.  Instead this is a marketing stunt, it is destined to go the way of New Coke and the McDonald&#8217;s &quot;I&#8217;d Hit It&quot; campaign.  Fade away into nothingness.  Or at least make the sticky keys option way more popular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&nbsp; Mood: Happy&nbsp;]So Google has produced a new keyboard for their OS computer, and in a stunning, albeit self-serving move, they have eliminated the CAPS LOCK key. Instead you get a dedicated search key. 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