Comments on: Google’s feature creep

By: traxor

traxor — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:11:49 +0000

Luckily though, Google is free. Part of the complaint of Microsoft's software is that you're paying for cluttered software when it needn't be so.

Shame.

By: traxor

traxor — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:11:49 +0000

Luckily though, Google is free. Part of the complaint of Microsoft's software is that you're paying for cluttered software when it needn't be so.

Shame.

By: rikin

rikin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:42:02 +0000

@wilner, agreed talks of it have been around for a while but everyday comes another anti-Google post and I can't help but think that 2010 might just be the year some one does something about it. Even if it's a company putting in a no-robots.txt line.

By: wilner

wilner — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:16:55 +0000

You're right about that. I've tried Bing and it's good but their indexing is very slow. Why is it so slow?

By: wilner

wilner — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:15:14 +0000

People have been talking about a Google backlash since before 2004, and nearly each year since then. But no tangible backlash has ever materialized. But given that it took Microsoft decades to develop a similar backlash against it, perhaps it's just a matter of time. I personally have been trying to wean myself off of Google. So far I've stopped using Google search and maps, but I still use Youtube and Translate services, and my work forces me to use Gmail (which I couldn't stand from the start.)

By: aseidman

aseidman — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:49:27 +0000

YouTube is a content play they acquired that benefited from both social networks and search engines.

At a macro level they realize that they need to own certain high value content sources (maps, local). Why? If one player dominates (e.g. Amazon in shopping or iTunes in music) a large and lucrative vertical category they could pull a large set of query traffic away from Google.

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By: dave kellogg

dave kellogg — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:08:06 +0000

Totally agree on the scrolling real-time results — annoying!

By: Ben Kessler

Ben Kessler — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:22:26 +0000

How about the new experimental design with COLOR?

http://twitpic.com/u1xuf/full

By: Tom Piamenta

Tom Piamenta — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:17:07 +0000

I always felt that hiring someone to manage your investment portfolio was dumb. In order to justify their commission and existence they have to do s-o-m-e-t-h-i-n-g. They buy, sell, hedge or whatever instead of just clinging to a good portfolio and letting it grow. The result is far less than optimal.
Same for Google.. even if you have an amazing simple product, what will you do with the $#I^loads of designers, programmers and consultants?... How can you just let the product rest?
lite.google.com is a fabulous idea...