Sunday, March 20, 2005
Google has no secret plan
Google has no secret plan via slashdot
I really like posts like this. They take a lot of rumor and speculation and distill it down to the common elements that actually make sense. I feel like he's JUST a bit on the conservative side, but basically his premise is this: Google is going to focus on search first and for the most part ignore things that do not directly help in the forwarding of that goal. I think that they will try other markets, but until they figure out a way to charge other than Web Ads, I think they will be pretty limited (I assume subscriptions will be the next step for this; whether or not that's good enough to beat a lot of folks who work on the stuff they're likely to compete with as their primary business (MS Office, MS Windows Sharing, SAP, Oracle, Quicken, etc etc etc) is TBD).
I really like posts like this. They take a lot of rumor and speculation and distill it down to the common elements that actually make sense. I feel like he's JUST a bit on the conservative side, but basically his premise is this: Google is going to focus on search first and for the most part ignore things that do not directly help in the forwarding of that goal. I think that they will try other markets, but until they figure out a way to charge other than Web Ads, I think they will be pretty limited (I assume subscriptions will be the next step for this; whether or not that's good enough to beat a lot of folks who work on the stuff they're likely to compete with as their primary business (MS Office, MS Windows Sharing, SAP, Oracle, Quicken, etc etc etc) is TBD).
posted by Iron Yuppie
3/20/2005 06:35:00 PM
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