I’ve been saying for many months, maybe even a year now that Google is no longer the innovative young company it once was but now a slow moving corporate mass. Well Techcrunch has been talking with a similar attitude pointing out their internal communication resembles that of classic big business. For instance reports of AdSence and AdWords only export to Excel, not Google Spreadsheets.
Speaking of Google Spreadsheets, the Web 2.0 spreadsheets start-up iRows has been bought out and is being merged in to the service. Absorbing technology rather than innovating it perhaps? It’s classic Google these days, let’s face facts, Google Video was awful, that’s why they bought YouTube.
And while I’m on the subject, how useful are Google’s new services anyway? They are putting major effort into their social network Orkut. MySpace and Facebook are still winning. Who uses Google Talk? Nobody, we’re all using Skype. Do you use Google Documents? I’m guessing not. Google Code Search? Google Reader? Google Page Creator? Hell, looking down the Labs list I haven’t even heard of most of it.
I don’t want to turn my blog into a Google bashing blog because their search still rocks. Google Local is still useful, Google Earth is still cool. I still use gMail. They got these services right. But I dislike the way people preach how Google is a nice caring “don’t be evil” company. Those days are gone. It’s not their fault, you just can’t do innovative big business.
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