OT: Google Comes Clean on Microsoft

[Shawn Badger]

I am aware of that, I was just using the articles title and info from
it to post it. I am just glad someone else is going to start taking
some more of M$'s money and they are Linux friendly.




On 5/11/07, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Shawn,
>
>   Google may be after the 'market share' of Microsoft, but the two companies
> count their assets quite differently.
>
>   Microsoft's asset was their hold on the OS market and the control that
> this granted them in a variety of venues.  Google, on the other hand counts
> it's primary asset as its /usage information/ of its applications, and the
> actual document data itself( which you sign away the rights to in your user
> agreement ).  Being that all its software is net-based and hosted remotely,
> Google is aware of *every single click you make*.  This gives them strategic
> information of development investment/return on a scale that makes Microsoft
> look like a bunch of useless wimps.  For instance, if 5 million people start
> using the email feature for Google Reader, Google knows with great accuracy
> that expanding this feature set is a good investment.  These kinds of
> decisions were made intuitively in older development paradigms.  It seems
> that there are really only a handful of apps that do not want to live on the
> web, Photoshop seems like one of the lasting strongholds of desktop-based
> software*.
>
>   Google's recent acquisition of Double Click makes their surveillance even
> more pervasive and complete as Double Click features ads in a great number
> of web sites.  As a result of this recent acquisition, some are even calling
> for Anti-Trust action [1].
>
>   This also introduces some new business dimensions that did not exist
> before.  In the world run by Google, privacy is the most valued premium.
> Many do not understand how important maintaining privacy is in this new
> world. [2]  Whatever your plans may be for world domination, exposing them
> to Google puts every investment firm with bottomless pockets one step ahead
> of whatever technical genius you may (think you) possess.  Also of great
> concern is the position that companies such as Google gain over censorship
> mechanisms.  I know of many web sites and blogs that have been removed from
> Google on baseless grounds of 'spam' or 'hate speech' etc.  It is a great
> illusion that Google is wholly impartial to the content that it indexes.
>
>   The biggest issues by far for the near future will be our laws for privacy
> and discrimination, which will be greatly emphasized by these new
> progressions.  Its takes a combination of vision and technical knowledge to
> fully understand the extent to which equality is compromised by these new
> technologies.  Also there have been some claims that Google is working with
> government agencies such as the NSA- can anyone here qualify these claims?
> [3]
>
>
>  -jmz
>
>
>
> * as I have stated before, Adobe is a key company in the new IT landscape,
> because apps like Flash are acting as a pivot between the new world of
> online 'rich media apps' and the traditional desktop OS.
>
> [1]
> http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/article1687147.ece
>
> [2] interesting tech:
> http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org/index.php?page=home&lang=en
>
> [3] http://www.google-watch.org/jobad.html
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/12/12/DI2005121201136.html
>      http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/10/8041/
>      ( I do not vouch for these sources )
>
>
>
>
> On 5/11/07, Shawn Badger <badger.shawn at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=22241&hed=Google+Comes+Clean+on+Microsoft+
> >
> >
> > A few excerts form the article:
> >
> > "Google today officially confirmed what many analysts have been saying
> > for months: the Mountain View, California-based search leader is going
> > after the software market in direct competition with Microsoft"
> >
> > "In a question and answer session with shareholders, one woman asked
> > Mr. Schmidt and Google co-founder Larry Page how they would avoid
> > becoming known as "the new Microsoft, and not in flattering terms."
> >
> >
> >
> > Mr. Page added, "It's natural to be concerned about it… We're not the
> > same kind of company" as others out there, Mr. Page said. "Our
> > engineers all run Linux. It's free. You can hack on it. It's deep in
> > our DNA""
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