Where might Google go next?

[linker]

Theories about once-bare bones search engine all over the map

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- In just seven years, Google Inc. has morphed from a bare-bones online search engine into a technological octopus that seems to sprout another intriguing tentacle every other week.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/10/03/growing.google.ap/index.html

 

[faisj]

http://labs.google.com/

 

[RTM]

Well, I think that the rumours about providing free WiFi access and monetizing it through advertiser-funded provisioning of LBS (Location Based Services) - think AdSense targetted by location (cellular GPS) and browsing / gmail / gtalk history.... that in and of itself is "big" enough.

As in the late nineties, I believe tech is on a big rebound - although this time investors will be careful about how much air they blow, and into which bubbles....

Rob

 

[user-7256]

The WiFi isn't a rumor anymore... Google has announced it.

Google is going to sponsor Sun's Java technology and promote it somehow... my details on this are bit vague...

 

[joebing]

oo, i like the google compute... ill download that

 

[Matt]

Nahhh, the Labs side of google doesnt show the true route their taking.

If your following the press....their next real venture, is going to be converting "Voice users" on mobile networks to utilising their PDA's/Phones as conduits for VOIP comms.

In effect elliminating the Networks.

Fun times ahead. Everyone is predicting 2006 as the mobile comms re-generation period (after a 4year drought and down turn).

*grins*

 

[faisj]

O have this feeling that they will also enter the webhosting market.

 

[user-7256]

Ah, web hosting... read this:

http://googleplans.blogspot.com/2005/09/google-web-hosting.html

I got more details on their plan with Sun - they plan to help promote OpenOffice and team up that way to combat Microsoft.

 

[faisj]

I have to say a lot of small business organisations will die if google decides
to go into hosting.

 

[monRa]

Not only bussiness but also all the free hosting companies! Because google is always free!

 

[GJ]

They could launch there own tv channel!

 

[admans]

Yea...wonder what havoc it would coz when the news of hosting arrives....

 

[faisj]

Not only bussiness but also all the free hosting companies! Because google is always free!

true! it would damage a lot of organisations (people)

 

[Ray]

this might sound weird... but im doing my graduation project on google

 

[faisj]

this might sound weird... but im doing my graduation project on google

I dont think its weird at all!

 

[billinchina]

It's amazing what kind of firewood advertising dollars make...

 

[user-7256]

You go templaterave! Way to do a project! ^_^

(I did a science report where the computer program I wrote spoke it for me, and I sat down while the computer gave my report, complete with images and animations.)

 

[SimpleDomaining]

i incredibly respect google owners. this is exellent example of people, who want something big, and making it possible infront of all world's eyes during very short period of time. what is 7 years? nothing if you are the person who make history. i will applad for them, wherever they will go next.

 

[wicked_gal00]

Google can do anything right now. They're in a really good position, and have great oportunities in whatever they plan to do. I personally can't wait to see what they come out with next. :D

 

[eCommando]

Google has leased 270,000 square feet of space at 111 Eighth Avenue, one of the largest carrier hotels in Manhattan, according to the New York Post. The enormous lease is the most visible sign yet of the GoogleNet, the long-rumored national IP backbone Google is stitching together from its bulk purchases of dark fiber. In recent weeks Google has begun to take the wraps off its ambitions for a range of IP-based services, including VoIP, chat, video-on-demand and WiFi Internet access. The reported lease at 111 Eighth shows that the construction of such "alt-Nets" could become a significant driver of leasing for data centers and telecom hotels. Industry veterans quoted in thePost story are impressed:

"They are building a network," said Hunter Newby, chief strategy officer with telecom specialist firm Telx. "None of us have ever seen any type of network buildup on this scale before."

http://www.nypost.com/business/28353.htm