Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Google !! The ubiquitous name in the byte world.

I dont know how and where to start this. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is making news all over. Every morning I click on Google News button on Google toolbar, I see some news on some innovation that Google does. Though to many net visitors google is just a search engine there are many more applications that this tiny giant is into. Just did a search for Google in Google Search Engine and it fetched 728,000,000 results (in 0.12 seconds). Microsoft scores 733,000,000 and Yahoo scores 413,000,000. That explains the spread of Google.

And look at the diversity of Google's projects. Search Google NASA, Google SUN, Google Microsoft, Google Satellite, Google Outsourcing, Google Productivity, Google Scholar, Google Pictures ... the list continues. Do you think Google is offering various tools and services on its web page that come packaged in a GUI Based operating system (read that as Windows or Mac OS X or ...). You have everything available on the internet. Including 2GB of space today. May be more tomorrow. Why would I buy a demanding piece of hardware and install more demanding piece of software? I would rather buy a thin client with Internet connection (probably a bare minimum laptop with wireless connection) and everything else computed over the web. Do we see some radical changes in near future?

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