Now that I've "upgraded" my Blogger account, my Gmail account seems to control everything. If I sign out of Gmail, I'm signed out of Orkut and Blogger as well. Yet signing into one doesn't necessary entail automatic access to the others. It just strikes me as a little odd that Google, which tried so hard to justify the creation of Gmail as being linked somehow to their search functionality, is now acquiring an increasing number of services that are of genuinely no consequence to their lives as a search engine business.
Does no-one else detect some serious mission creep?
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In my classes, as you can imagine, the subject of Google is a perennial feature. And one day, we were talking about whether the price Google paid for YouTube was enough or too little or too much. And suddenly, no one could say anything, studly professor included. Google is kinda like Michael Jackson shopping, only intelligently - pointing at things they want. With the Google empire, it isn't about how much an acquisiton costs, it is about how much it completes the empire - one blogging thing, one networking thing (though I think Orkut was a bad purchase), one revolutionary email-chat thing, one search engine (of course) etc., and miles and miles of revenue. In fact, I should send you this frighteningly scientific article I read about the online advertising business and it's influence on the results of search engines. Ok, enough said, I could go on with this for a while.
What surprises me is that people aren't as annoyed with Google as they were with Microsoft when it went all IE on everyone's asses... aren't we heading for basically the same thing now, anyway?
Hopefully Google will have the brains not to try to develop an OS.
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