[Sigia-l] Froogle

[Peter Morville]

I love my Google Toolbar too.  However, on the topics of lock-in and
barriers-to-entry, I have a feeling that the very smart folks at Google
(and their very patient VCs) have a few tricks up their sleeves.  Maybe
I'm just being paranoid. :-)


Peter Morville
President, Semantic Studios
www.semanticstudios.com


-----Original Message-----
From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org] On Behalf
Of Madhu Menon
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 2:13 PM
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Froogle


At 12:30 AM 13-12-02, Peter Morville wrote:
>Am I the only one who's
>feeling a bit over-saturated by the growing Googleplex?  Is Google 
>destined to become the Microsoft of the Internet?  Or is Google all 
>Good?

Hey, Google wasn't the first search engine on the block. It was quite
late, 
in fact - 1998. If the other search engine folks can come up with
something 
more useful, I'll use that. Remember the days when Altavista was king?
Then 
it went into "portal" mode, trying to become everything to everyone.
That 
screwed them and now they're back into search engine mode. Their
indices, 
however, need a lot of updating.

Unlike Microsoft, there's no lock-in. You're free to use any other
search 
service on the Net. So the comparison to Microsoft doesn't work.

Me... I love my Google Toolbar.

Regards,

Madhu

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Madhu Menon
Internet User Experience Consultant
e-mail: webguru at vsnl.net   |   Yahoo messenger: cold_logic

Content * Interfaces * Usability * Net Strategy

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