so i've been thinking about google

check out the link to the Google page i'm using at the moment, i think its great that we can use so many different page views, but thats not what i wanted to talk about.

i like what they are doing, some people are scared / paranoid about the company, but i think the only thing we need to worry about is far down our throats they are gonna push their targeted adverts.

i dont use G-mail, but i hear only good things, i use Google Earth (but am not over-awed by the coverage of the UK, get some great visuals of disney and universal theme parks though, which is always good), I've had a look at Google talk...i dont use IM anymore but it seems like Google just wanted to throw a spanner in the works with this one (see the many articles about its open-source jabberness and how Yahoo, AOL and M$ will have to implament similar things into their clients to stop mass migration to google, even though its an under developed beta program) and looks like voice calling over broadband is where they are looking to go with this lil piece of kit.

And what do i say? fair play to them, anything that rocks the establishment is ok by me...and Google certainly do that. I've heard people say that in a few years we will be saying "remember google" like we now say "remember AltaVista" or "remember BBS" but i dont see that...this is a public company that will keep their labs churning out (branded) programs and (hopefully) keep their index in tip top shape and keep the data integrity...while finding new and innovative ways to advertise to us...as long as all that happens, we will see Google in our RSS feeds, our newspapers, or social networking sites and on articles and blogs the world over for many many years to come

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