The Cynic Says……

Just a random thought, but is google trying to take over the world? What’s next? GoogleOS? As it is, they offer their regular search engine, plus it has now added the capabilities to search weather, maps, and video (TV shows or something). Not to mention they have gmail still in beta, which gives you 1GB of email storage. I use it and like it quite a bit. Rumor also has it that google is going to start selling domain names in the not-too-distant future. They also offer a google desktop search tool that searches files on your local PC. They have Froogle which searches various online stores for the best price like pricegrabber and pricewatch. They have Google Groups that searches newsgroup postings. Google News, which indexes news headlines from various sources. At this point, there’s not much google can’t find for you. They’ve even got this software called Picassa that “helps you find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC”. I don’t have that many images so it’s no big deal to me. But those who have huge collections of pics might find it useful. It’s goten really good reviews from what I’ve read. They also have their toolbar, deskbar and gmail notifier. They can all be downloaded on their software downloads page. Oh, and one more thing I forgot to mention. One of the Microsoft engineers that worked on WindowsNT (the precursor to Win2000 and WinXP) left Microsoft and went to work for Google. Looks like we may have an interesting war on our hands in the near future. Google vs Microsoft anyone? Place your bets!