Comments on: Could Anything Disrupt Google?

By: Ferrari California

Ferrari California — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:05:03 +0000

Google is just the best there is. They are simple to use, give you what you need, and you can't help but use them and love them.

By: Ferrari California

Ferrari California — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:05:03 +0000

Google is just the best there is. They are simple to use, give you what you need, and you can't help but use them and love them.

By: Sam Huleatt

Sam Huleatt — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:11:05 +0000

@Scott

"Startups are efficient users of capital, and that's what matters. If
Google really wanted to change the game, they'd split themselves up
into a million pieces and use Web 2.0/3.0 architectures to federate
them together to provide applications and services."

Hmm...interesting comment Scott! I want to think more about this...I
think you're touching on something very interesting...

Sam

By: Scott Kozicki

Scott Kozicki — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:05:30 +0000

Google will disrupt itself, but not in the good Clay Christensen way. The company has injested too many people, shouldered too many projects, and the days of “20% to work on what you think is important” are gone. Google has succumbed to the same problem that all high growth successful companies fall to – themselves. There's no way that they can possibly monitize or even develop all of the great ideas that are percolating there. At least not fast enough or efficiently enough to see them all under one stock ticker. There's a rash of people leaving the company to start their own projects. Remember, startups are efficient users of capital, and that's what matters. If Google really wanted to change the game, they'd split themselves up into a million pieces and use Web 2.0/3.0 architectures to federate them together to provide applications and services.

By: Sam Huleatt

Sam Huleatt — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:13:05 +0000

@mark I'm honestly not sure.

I do know that increasingly in my life (and so probably likewise for
many others) my mobile device is my primary jumping off point.
Although I run searches on my iPhone, it's not nearly as often as I do
while using a computer. I tend to be active when using my mobile so
it's much more situational.

I doubt this answers anything or even points at an answer :)

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:08:51 +0000

About your Question Sam, I think it will not remain. What about you? Do you have any idea about this?

By: Sam Huleatt

Sam Huleatt — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:51:04 +0000

Do you guys think that search will remain the primary jumping off point?

By: calamityjake

calamityjake — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:48:25 +0000

“The guys hosting the cloud will have big pipes. Rent space in a cloud, copy the internet there. Now you've got 'your' copy of the internet, browse at will.”

Isn't that just what Google does?

By: Tim Maly

Tim Maly — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:31:20 +0000

The limiting factor is not storage space. It is computing power to index iit and bandwidth to download it.

By: Geoffrey

Geoffrey — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:30:25 +0000

Internet growth is vastly outpacing storage density/cost. Don't get me wrong, storage has made great strides, but that's nothing compared with information production. We're filling up our own drives as fast as we get 'em, there's no hope that we'll fit everybody else's data on there as well.