Thankfully it’s John Dvorak playing connect the dots with the Internet’s past and Google’s present and future, because the points are hard to argue. When Bill Gates recently said Google was most like Microsoft, more than any other competitor, he may have been making a more subtle statement than most people realized.
Clone The Google API
Oh, Dave, I couldn’t say “clone the Google API” in public! But you did. So I’ll riff on it. I agree with it. I’ll even repeat it.
Google Print Continues Amid Controversy
Google will resume scanning in-copyright works today at partner libraries as part of its Google Print for Libraries program. The project was temporarily suspended after author and publisher outrage over potential copyright infringement so the search company could negotiate the terms.
Forrester CEO: Google Leads To X Internet
Like lots of people trying to divine the inner workings and possible futures for the search engine, George Colony has some thoughts on the topic.
Google Workforce Triples From 2003
Some of that secondary stock offering cash the company raised will go toward paying a workforce of nearly 5,000 people now.
Can MSN Search Best Google?
Competition in the search engine world is fierce and none more fierce than the big three. Google rules the roost by far. There’s no question. MSN runs a distant third. One question floating around is what could MSN do to catch up or perhaps beat Google?
Microsoft Challenges Google On Web Services
Bill Gates gave demonstrations of Windows Live and Office Live to journalists in San Francisco today, as the 30-year-old software company tries to show it isn’t quite ready to be pushed aside by Google.
Google To Sell Over $6 Billion In Ads
After it outsells every newspaper, magazine, and TV network in advertising this year, one analyst thinks revenue could hit $9.5 billion next year. Sparse home page. Major ad revenue.
Google Ad Revolution Could Be Televised
If the search engine company has its way, Madison and Vine executives would be replaced by a login to AdWords.
Apocalypse Powered By Google
Google has stated that its mission is to index all of the world’s information, an endeavor that CEO Eric Schmidt says will take about 300 years. In business years, that’s nigh on eternity. How does Google plan to last that long? (Cue evil music) Evidence is mounting that Google may be the harbinger of the Apocalypse-or as it soon will be known, Apocalypse Powered By Google.