Anyway, in today’s news…Google is taking you over. Say goodbye to Microsoft and whatever his name is…Bill…ah it’s not important. The important thing is that you not get left behind in thinking that Microsoft will recover from the death blow that is Google and all of its very own personalized services.
Google is so much of a threat to Microsoft and its monopoly on the computer industry that Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, had some pretty harsh words for Google; click here for the story, and its chief executive Eric Schmidt. In fact he gets pretty fired up using language that I wouldn’t even want my parents hearing.
But incase you are totally oblivious to exactly how big Google has gotten over the past few years, let me enlighten you. Google has a market value of $80 Billion…not bad for a company that only celebrated its 10th birthday last year. But let’s break it down in ways that you can see. Google now offers e-mail in their amazing G-Mail service which gives you over 2.5 Gigs of space, this makes Hotmail’s 250mb look puny, and G-Mail’s space continually grows too by the way. Google is also beta testing G-Talk which will rival if not take over MSN for the top Instant Messaging service on the web. Along with Google desktop which delivers many great things such as e-mail and news to a side-bar on your desktop and the fact that they hopped on the blogging band-wagon and bought this site, Blogger.com, are only a few of the things that Google has going for them.
Google is years ahead of Microsoft in offering personalized services because they have been building a database pretty much since they’ve started. That’s right, they have been keeping track of you and me and the places we go on the net, the things that we read…even the weather in our hometowns and have stored it away…somewhere so they can give us personalized info based on our past trends.
Microsoft should be scared and so should you.
To see the depth of Google and where it could end up, watch this video.
5 comments:
hey jon, i'm not sure, but one of my friends at iwu has a blog with your link on it, but i don't remember who, i was just looking at different iwu people's! anyway- i hope things are BBC are good, EH?!?! :) are you doin the ministry team next summer too? me and tana and josh are probably! well i'll talk to you later! have a good day!
-Lynne
i agree--google is a fantastmagorical piece of work. and google talk is great! except i only have one contact. everybody sign up!
I think you forgot one important asset Google also has: Blogger! If you've seen MSN "My Space" or whatever the crap they call it, there's no comparison. Blogger rules the Blogging world, and they're taking everything else from Microsoft. And I say "yay".
completely irrelevant to google talk....did you know that if you type in "thinkpad.blogspot.com" instead of "think-pad...." you get directed to a charming little spanish blog instead of yours! ha! so nice. great blog jonny.
that google talk is awesome! thanks for letting us know about it! chuck and i used it last night to talk from Rochester to Australia and it works great!!!!!!!! There's not even a delay. We owe it all to you! :)
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