How Google could make Microsoft a relic of history..

[Hohn]

An open letter to Google:



Dear Google--

Your search engine is king of the searches. Your Gmail service is the best email service on the net-- free OR pay. It's time for the next step: Google Office

Yahoo started as a search engine, then moved into becoming a portal-- with email addresses, online file storage, etc.

But Google can do better. Not only will Google give you FOR FREE all the best stuff that a portal can offer, but Google could replace the suite of Office applications now used by so many.

Imagine if you will a Google where people can click on a link to open a web-based spreadsheet, database, or word processor. No need to save the file to your local PC, as there's plenty of free online storage for your files. No longer does someone need an Office suite of applications and a large hard drive to store them on-- all you need is a web connection (albeit a fast one).

Of course, you'd give all of this away for free. Once people get used to the freedom of a web-based suite, they will never go back to the old way.

As this become the norm, you may want to start selling subscriptions to the site for newer users.

The visionary leadership over at Apple is leveraging a tiny little MP3 player into a digital revolution, and a corporate one as well.

Does Google have the same visionaries? Or does Google think that advertising is going to take them to the next step???


Justin Hohn

 

[Jumbo Jet]

... and please be sure and make your application compatible with the Microsoft Office Suite of products. There are so many businesses in the World that use MS Office tools as a standard.

 

[Headshot zod]

You can use Open Office . This use to be Star Office back in the day. Sun purchased it. It's free, it opens word docs and more importantly "Open Source".



I don't know about visionary leadership. All of their bleeding edge guys left and started Be inc. , created the BeBOX & BeOS operating system. Unfortunatley since nobody knew about it. It died and came back unexpectedly as YellowTab .



Actually Yahoo started as a list of favorite websites for David Filo and Jerry Yang. dangit nobody wants to see my list of sites

 

[Bertram65]

I stopped using when google when someone on here pointed out what comes up when you put in "failure" and hit "I feel lucky" Pretty lame.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

I for one wouldn't use an online office suite of applications. I have lots of financial information in my spreadsheets and lots of confidential information in word documents. I wouldn't want those hosted on a server somewhere else where anyone working at that company would have easy access to them.

 

[nickleinonen]

I stopped using when google when someone on here pointed out what comes up when you put in "failure" and hit "I feel lucky" Pretty lame.

i found that to be quite humorous myself...

 

[Headshot zod]

I had heard that google was liberal, but I think I'll be using something else now.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

That I'm feeling lucky thing has nothing to do with Google's political affiliation. The I'm feeling lucky button simply returns the very first results on a particular search. People out there take advantage of the algorythm's that are used to rank pages to get things like that in the top spot. Here is an article on the practice - http://www.answers.com/topic/google-bomb . Do an I'm feeling lucky search on impeached and you'll get a page on Clinton. I wouldn't condemn Google based on that.

 

[Bertram65]

That I'm feeling lucky thing has nothing to do with Google's political affiliation. The I'm feeling lucky button simply returns the very first results on a particular search. People out there take advantage of the algorythm's that are used to rank pages to get things like that in the top spot. Here is an article on the practice - http://www.answers.com/topic/google-bomb . Do an I'm feeling lucky search on impeached and you'll get a page on Clinton. I wouldn't condemn Google based on that.

Interesting, I am surprised they do not change the algorithms to prevent the manipulation of their search engine, maybe it is not possible, kind of degrades the result's value.