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POPSCan the all-seeing, all-knowing Google be trusted to rule the world? Many of Google’s brightest ideas come from the attempt to fulfil its almost hopelessly ambitious mission: “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Upcoming projects will go some way to achieving this goal. Amongst them is Google Book Search. For the past few years, Google have been scanning the pages of books in order to eventually release them online and make them fully searchable. Professor Angell argued that Google’s track record is admirable, but problems could come in the future. He said: “If it is a choice between Google holding my details and the British Government holding my details, I’d give them to Google every time. I see more nuisance value than evil intent.” But he added: “The moment any organization gets too vast, hubris takes over and then they fail.”
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POPSGoogle's GDrive a Power-Grab, Make PCs Obsolete Bye, bye Microsoft Operating System. Remote or "cloud computing" would operate from Google servers instead of the PC. Privacy would be sacrificed and Google is positioned for dominance. Seems like MS stock would take a dive too. The GDrive would follow this logic to its conclusion by shifting the contents of a user's hard drive to the Google servers. The PC would be a simpler, cheaper device acting as a portal to the web, perhaps via an adaptation of Google's operating system for mobile phones, Android.Users would think of their computer as software rather than hardware.
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POPS Could GDrive From Google "Kill" Off The Desktop PC? Google's rumored "GDrive," a service that would enable users to access their PCs from any Internet connection, could kill off the desktop computer, The Guardian has reported. Google refused to confirm the GDrive, but acknowledged the growing demand for cloud computing. "There's a clear direction ... away from people thinking, 'This is my PC, this is my hard drive,' to 'This is how I interact with information, this is how I interact with the web,'" said Dave Armstrong, head of product and marketing for Google Enterprise.
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POPSWhy Google Wins: Really Fast Data Om Malik does an interesting analysis of Google's real advantage: the Web's fastest supply chain in delivering data. To be fair, Google's initial advantage was its search algorithm. But I think he's right that as the company's other products like Apps and the coming Gdrive mature, super-fast data movement will keep Google on top of the heap.
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POPSGoogle GDrive? That'd be good. Also,click on the "compelling evidence" to find a cool detective story.
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