Google

Context : SearchEngines

2021 : Good story on GoogleMessagingApps

2019 : Big player in MachineLearning with TensorFlow

For a moment in the 2000s it was the biggest, smartest BigTech co. around.

Outdated links

• PageRank
  • NOW with NoFollowTag to help protect blogs and wikis against spammers.
• GoogleEatsLibraries
• GoogleDesktopSearchAppliance

• GoogleAsAi

• /Gears

Imagining its future (March 2006) : http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/01/01/8368125/index.htm

• GoogleBase
• GoogleVerse
• AdSense

Google's PlatformWars

(read with SearchEnginePlatformWars)

• Googe + SunMicrosystems : http://beta.news.com.com/5208-12-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=10162&messageID=73728&start=-176

: Google gets OpenOffice (to compete directly with MS Office, allegedly cross partnership helps Sun sell Grid services and Google distribute their toolbar.

• now an operating system? : http://www.cnet.com/4520-6033_1-5759958-1.html?tag=nl.e501

• Adding RSS to GMail : http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2004/06/18/emailasaplatformwhygmailwill_win.php

• FTrain thinks Google will win DistributedMarkets

• GoogleHoles / MicrosoftVsGoogle

• Friendster is adding search : http://www.eurekster.com/

• http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1654231,00.asp

• http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1651658,00.asp

• What are they building in there? : http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=1524b97e-f8b1-4e42-ac07-455337f299b4

• TheUserIsThePlatform

• Google are using ExclusiveInvites for their new online services

• what will they buy next? http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/6/12/143721/743

• Google (search in general) vs. the TagoSphere : http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2005/06/18/whyrssandfolksonomiesarebecomingso_big.html

• Game over : http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gillmor/?p=149&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Against :

AgainstGoogle

Other Google stuff

• Google's IPO letter is interesting and commendable : http://battellemedia.com/archives/000627.php

: but corporate governence is criticised : http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9480242.htm

: taming the VCs? : http://men.style.com/gq/features/full?id=content_422

• Google as super-computer : http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/05/07/19OPstrategic_1.html

: (Web-scale programming? Contrast SituatedSoftware. Though maybe there's also PlentyOfRoomAtTheTop. And also ConservationOfModularity)

• Apparently Google allow their employees time to work on their own projects. Contrast ResearchCentres, compare FifthDayStrategy

• OnGoogle/UsingPredictionMarkets

EstherDyson suggests it goes medical : http://weblog.edventure.com/blog/_archives/2004/9/8/127376.html

In China : (OnChina) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4536473.stm (OnChina)

Google Fun!!

• The banality of google : http://www.ftrain.com/GoogleIP.html

• Google will eat itself : http://www.gwei.org/gwei/
• http://googlefight.com
• http://www.secretgeek.net/ms_search.asp

Censoring the World Socialist Website? https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/04/goog-n04.html