Will Google Take Over More And More Of Your Desktop?
from the control-everything... dept
Last year, we wrote that Google was trying to become the user interface to the internet. However, Danny Sullivan is taking that idea and going in a slightly different direction with it. Considering Google's move into email, he wonders if it doesn't make sense for them to take over more of your desktop functionality. Sure, they're giving you 1 gig for your email now, but how long will it be until they can give you 10 gigs (or 100 gigs), and can store all your documents and spreadsheets as well? Why store anything on your home machine if Google can reliably store it for you - while offering you quick and extremely powerful personalized search of all of your data? Well, there's the whole privacy problem and the question of just how much you trust Google, but it certainly makes sense as a direction they might head in. And, as the article points out, this is why Microsoft should be scared. The more stuff that's done away from the desktop, the less need there is for Microsoft. Of course, I'm reminded of the claims during Netscape's heyday about how they were going to turn the browser into the operating system and destroy Microsoft, and look who won that war. Still, it's important to realize that Google has many directions they can go in - and seeing them as a "search" company is not particularly accurate any more. The other thought on this, was that for years, folks like Larry Ellison kept pushing the concept of the "network computer" where all your data would be stored online and you would just use a dumb terminal to reach it. Wouldn't it be amusing if Google basically backed into that reality?
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I want them to go the other way
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Gmail Users... Anyone?
So does anyone here know anyone who has a Gmail account? What's the scoop?
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Re: Gmail Users... Anyone?
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Google spoogle
Google had a small chance of becoming the face of the web, they could have become so good at searching they could have put everyone else out of running, and from there imposed themselves into every other aspect of the web. Instead they became overwhelmed with spam and bad search results.
Yahoo and Google are about 50/50 with search results now, Google better with some, Yahoo with others, it's not so clear cut anymore. MS will also buy themselves back into the game and give Google real problems. About the only positive thing Google has going for it is the name 'Google', and frankly I don't think that's worth a billionth what some people believe it to be.
Google had its window of opportunity. In all seriousness, I would not be surprised if in 5 years Google had the same market share Netscape has today.
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Re: Google spoogle
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interesting drama
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Why google wont be effective past a search engine
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my dear asshole son.
you have been fooled badly
https://gmail.google.com/gmail/html/april.html
its april son!
stop using your kidneys and use your brain.
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Re: my dear asshole son.
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I can only understand Google in one way. Notwithstanding all the talk about super efficient algorithms etc etc - they must have one hell of a big machine stored ( in a bunker ) somewhere . . .
Don't they ?
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"Every so often a war arises. No, I don't mean a military conflict like Vietnam or Iraq but a business one. A business war is similar to a military one with fewer casualties…the winner becomes the (industry) leader for years to come. In years past we've had a host of business wars. Decades ago it was the big three automobile companies. In the 1980s, the cola companies were wrestling with each other. In the mid 1990s there were the browser wars: Microsoft's Internet Explorer versus Netscape Navigator. We all know who won. This time around it's the search wars. And in less than six months, the battle between Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft will be won. And if you write papers or "research" Paris Hilton, the result will likely affect you. Google ought to win because it represents a potent cocktail of market dominance, innovative solutions, and anti-Microsoft-ness."
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Kabir Sehgal on the Google Wars
"Every so often a war arises. No, I don't mean a military conflict like Vietnam or Iraq but a business one. A business war is similar to a military one with fewer casualties…the winner becomes the (industry) leader for years to come. In years past we've had a host of business wars. Decades ago it was the big three automobile companies. In the 1980s, the cola companies were wrestling with each other. In the mid 1990s there were the browser wars: Microsoft's Internet Explorer versus Netscape Navigator."
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