Thursday, August 25, 2005
Search giant may outgrow its fans - Technology - smh.com.au:
"Google sold itself on being anti-corporate but is becoming the opposite, report Owen Gibson and Richard Wray.
ASHRINKING world got considerably smaller this week. Google, a company spawned in a garage of two university students in California just seven years ago, announced a new service that will allow you to telephone your mother in New York free, as long as she too is a Google user.
That is just the start. The company, with a market capitalisation of $US78 billion ($103.2 billion), has ambitions to colonise the living room and to apply the phrase 'to Google' to every activity that occurs within it. In addition to the telecom move, it also launched an improved version of its desktop search software that helps users to organise all the files on their computer and suggests useful web links and documents pertinent to whatever you happen to be doing.
The rate of new launches has increased further since its high profile flotation last year. With each new service, Google and its student founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, encroach a little bit more on the territory of Bill Gates and software giant Microsoft.
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The question is whether the young upstarts who have built a hugely profitable business on Google's anti-corporate image are on the way to following Gates's path from bright young turk to monopolistic behemoth..."
"Google sold itself on being anti-corporate but is becoming the opposite, report Owen Gibson and Richard Wray.
ASHRINKING world got considerably smaller this week. Google, a company spawned in a garage of two university students in California just seven years ago, announced a new service that will allow you to telephone your mother in New York free, as long as she too is a Google user.
That is just the start. The company, with a market capitalisation of $US78 billion ($103.2 billion), has ambitions to colonise the living room and to apply the phrase 'to Google' to every activity that occurs within it. In addition to the telecom move, it also launched an improved version of its desktop search software that helps users to organise all the files on their computer and suggests useful web links and documents pertinent to whatever you happen to be doing.
The rate of new launches has increased further since its high profile flotation last year. With each new service, Google and its student founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, encroach a little bit more on the territory of Bill Gates and software giant Microsoft.
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The question is whether the young upstarts who have built a hugely profitable business on Google's anti-corporate image are on the way to following Gates's path from bright young turk to monopolistic behemoth..."
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