May 26 2007

Google’s Omni’s

Posted by Jeff as Editorial, Google

Just this afternoon on the way to Robinsons Ermita I was hit with a question I’ve never thought about asking before - is there anything else Google has not thought about? Some things to keep in mind:

Google is everywhere
The ubiquitous search engine, Gmail, Blogger, Orkut, News, Google Earth! Sometimes I think about being shot nude while soaking up the sun in middle of Boracay.

Google has all the answers
Google even knows you’re too lazy to type in ‘www’ and ‘.com’ and he keeps his mouth shut when your Google.com home page’s first search of the day involves your daily dose of sweet, sweet Gmail pleasure. Seriously, dude. How hard is it to type a four-letter word and hit CTRL + enter?

Google’s power pwnz joo
All we like sheep have turned over our emails and pictures and embarrassing search terms that make you think “I wish no one saw me search for that”, not to mention our full names and home addresses and credit card numbers and the maiden names of our mothers because Google is so damn easy to trust, unlike that other company. Not to say that Google will rat us all out one day, but my gut tells me we are all bound to be doomed when today’s feel-good Google gods and goddesses transcend time and space and an evil empire rises from within.

It’s becoming frighteningly more difficult to resist the power that Google as a company yields over the web. Backed by the brightest minds, every new idea seems to have come from the G camp, and we are left without a compelling reason to turn our backs and go to the competition. I would like to see the day when Yahoo and Microsoft and even more players come into the scene and take it out like wild animals in a galactic battle for the best services. In the end it’s always the consumer who benefits from competition, however fierce it may be.

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ia
27|May|2007

I wish you had discussed Google’s Universal Search as well as its advertising ventures with Feedburner and online video to further underscore how fast this company is growing.

However, there are many things Google hasn’t come up with. Think of Photoshop, the PS3, the iPod… practically everything else that was not made by Google. It’s a bit tricky (to say the least) to say Google is *everything* at this point even if it is exceptionally large and powerful—because where do you draw the line? When you say Google will take over everything, does that mean they have to go beyond computing expertise?

That’s not to say they won’t be able to do those things. It *is* scary to imagine how big Google actually is, though I doubt most people have seen how many bases the company has covered and, consequently, what it all means. Google isn’t obliged to reveal all of its activities and future plans, after all.
Fire Eye'd Boy
27|May|2007

Feedburner was only recently acquired by Google and there’s no telling how that may be an issue on Google’s customers’ privacy. PS3 and the iPod vs Gmail and Orkut? I did not mean to confuse by saying “everything”, but that’s not quite the same league.

For all practical intents and purposes of living in the Web 2.0 world, Google *is* everything - search, email and chat, social networking, news, maps, etc
technosearch
27|May|2007

Google deserves their reputation anyway. I’ve been interested on Google’s success and was wondering what their secret is. Good thing I watched a video/forum where the CEO of Google talked about their recipe for success (sorry, I can’t remember that forum as it was just a video clip my boss showed me).

Google’s focus is their customers/consumers. All their products are a result of their drive to satisfy their customers. Google consciously spends 20% of their employee’s time on thinking how to better serve the customers. Imagine employees doing nothing 20% of their time but thinking, researching, experimenting, etc just to come up with new things. Focus and Innovation are their drivers.
Mr Butterscotch
28|May|2007

Google is extremely good - it seems to use the common-sense approach that I appreciate. On the other hand, you really should try other search engines to make the most of the web if you get stuck on a search.

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