Google's World
Google's new tool makes inroads into areas that belong to others for now, and raises the question: how long before Google supplants Windows?
And the inevitable next question: how long before the Justice Department goes after Google for violation of anti-trust?
Will Microsoft claim to be Google's victim? Will Bill Gates have completed his conversion from peaceful, a-political billionaire to professional victim in need of mercantilist protection?
There are a lot of Windows machines in Washington DC...
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Mises Blog reports that Google has a new tool that you can install on your desktop to search your computer like you search the web. Misfile a paper? Can't find that song? What did that girl say to you over IM last week about coffee? Now you can searc... Read More
Comments (6)
looks like a piece of software for people that don't know how to use their file manager. i personally don't see me installing this to do something i can quite easily do with native OS tools already.
Published: October 14, 2004 6:02 PM
The next move for Google, some people think, is to make a Google web browser. All they have to do is to rebrand Firefox or Mozilla (which are open-source) and include a Google toolbar with the program.
That would probably more popular and more useful than the desktop search tool.
Published: October 14, 2004 7:13 PM
If Google Desktop is anything like Apple's Spotlight technology (which is similar to the search technology Microsoft promised for Longhorn but probably won't deliver), I believe it will be an unbelievably useful tool. The kind of tool that you will eventually wonder how you lived without. If you've used smart playlists in iTunes or smart albums in iPhoto or keywords in Photoshop Album, you've seen an inkling of the way you may some day manage all your files on your computer.
Published: October 14, 2004 8:08 PM
I know one thing, Gmail is a lot better than Hotmail.
Published: October 15, 2004 12:13 AM
Hey now,
Give the Justice Department a little but of a break. Microsoft may have been bitten, but they defended themselves well enough. And Google has plenty of competitors . . . but your point is well taken. Government has no right to beat down the innovators of the world.
Published: October 15, 2004 1:21 PM
"Give the Justice Department a little but of a break."
Okay, but I'll never lessen my hatred for the myriad of bandwagon suits that came from the respective state attorney generals all across the nation.
State government collusion with federal government never ceases to annoy the hell outta me.
Published: October 16, 2004 3:57 AM