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Was wondering why there's no google property site, seems there's one on the way... This will knock the socks off my own property map, doh! It's going to cover all information that could possibly be posted online it seems, and will be called googlebase. Yoinks! Starting to look like the Google to destroy all information it can't index story from The Onion might come true!
I don't normally read The Onion online, but did you know it's a real paper too? I picked it up in San Francisco.
pauly :: 2005 :: Comment / reply
that article in the onion is a spoof isnt it?
i'm personally starting to get a bit worried by google - they're becoming the microsoft of the internet and they're setting de facto standards with little viable competition. people need to start thinking hard about who owns the internet, physically and from an intellectual property point of view. if we dont act soon, then it will be too late. the internet belongs to everyone and one company shouldnt be able to unilaterally shape its future. i should mention normally i'm very laissez-faire, but on this, i'm not sure our physical and intellectual property laws are modelled correctly to deal with internet ownership issues, and therefore i am not sure the market will correct itself. oh dear.
mOOMINTRUDE :: 27 Oct :: 2005 :: Comment / reply
The wacky thing is Google aren't enforcing any standards, they're just coming up with better products than everyone else. With things like google mail, they've not tried to force the product on anyone in any way, they went out of their way to restrict usage even. It's very clever...
pauly :: 27 Oct :: 2005 :: Comment / reply
well that's why i use the term de facto standards...their product is so superior (for a number of reasons) that they are setting the standards in a number of areas - which is fine at the moment, but what happens when google become horrid money orks - remember the days when everyone liked microsoft...
mOOMINTRUDE :: 27 Oct :: 2005 :: Comment / reply
With things like gmail they let you connect to your account however you like, using outlook, using a browser, using an RSS aggregator, whatever... That's got to be a good thing hasn't it? I've not tried fetching my gmail via POP3 in another browser, but it's meant to work.
This new base.google.com looks like it could cause some people some damage, but you can't blame them for just making good products... they're forcing everyone else to raise their games.
pauly :: 28 Oct :: 2005 :: Comment / reply
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