Google is notorious for waiting around while everyone else is proclaiming its fall, then standing up and kicking its rivals where it hurts most. Can’t think of any cases like that? Well, remember when Microsoft was investing in Facebook? Everyone was jabbering how M$ has “defeated” Google in the bid war and then Google announced OpenSocial… Or when Apple was (and still is to be fair) gaining ground in mobile market with the iPhone — Google announced Android OS.
However, that was before and the battles were not fought for Google’s core business — search and advertising revenue that it produces. It seems that recently though, everyone took turns in taking a swing at Google. Microsoft has announced bing search engine which has already managed to put a dent in Google’s search market share. Then M$ and Yahoo finally went through with so called “microhoo” deal, that failed first time around.
There’s also a rising buzz on the internet about conventional search dying and it all being about real-time search (Twitter search rings a bell?). Facebook even bought FriendFeed for that matter, mainstream opinion being that they are going after Twitter, something that they’ve done before.
Meanwhile, what has Google been up to? Not much really. To get back at Microsoft (?) they have announced Google Chrome OS that created quite some buzz and then went quiet. They have also added plenty of social features to their products — from Google Profiles to Google Reader. Google has also made their prototype search, codename “caffeine” open for public testing. However at this point none if it seems like an offensive move from Google — they are just shielding themselves one blow at a time.
The problem, is that Google’s left hand is not communicating very well to the right one. Even today they have some quite revolutionary products such as Google Voice (only available in the US), that has caused some Apple-directed hatred after the official GV app was rejected from AppStore. Other products such as Google Wave are already starting to bore people before they even came out. Meanwhile all of the little things mentioned above are just too scattered around and barely integrated at all.
So is Google indeed cooking-up something HUGE? Or has it become a dinosaur that Microsoft once was and from now on it will just be rolling downhill? Hopefully not…
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