Google Maps!!!!!

wacki · #1 02-08-2005, 09:25 AM

http://maps.google.com/

Google
Gmail
Google desktop
Gbrowser (in production)
Google Maps

What's next?

Jack of Arcades · #2 02-08-2005, 09:52 AM

This is tits.

Patrick del Poker Grande · #3 02-08-2005, 10:40 AM

At what point does Google stop being the good guy everyone trusts and start being The Man?

Shajen · #4 02-08-2005, 10:42 AM

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At what point does Google stop being the good guy everyone trusts and start being The Man?

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Sir, please look directly at the light.

thank you.

wacki · #5 02-08-2005, 11:26 AM

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As soon as they start ripping you off and charging you an arm and a leg for a crappy product like Microsoft. Or how about when google becomes annoying as hell because they turned into a banner farm.

Until then, GOOGLE ROCKS!!!!!!!

lapoker17 · #6 02-08-2005, 12:55 PM

They're already Microsoft.

Their only revenue (90% or so) comes from a stolen business model (Adwords, which they "borrowed" from Overture).

They already are the man.

wacki · #7 02-08-2005, 04:12 PM

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Their only revenue (90% or so) comes from a stolen business model (Adwords, which they "borrowed" from Overture).

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Do you have any links? Couldn't find anything with Yahoo. Even if it's true, Google still doesn't come close Microsoft. They aren't even in the same league really.

lapoker17 · #8 02-08-2005, 05:46 PM

I meant only in the sense that they're profiting solely from the ideas of others. Their business model was, they didn't have a business model, until they "discovered" pay per click search (all those little text ads you see). Now they're a media darling. It's just kind of lame.

wacki · #9 02-08-2005, 06:53 PM

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I meant only in the sense that they're profiting solely from the ideas of others. Their business model was, they didn't have a business model, until they "discovered" pay per click search (all those little text ads you see). Now they're a media darling. It's just kind of lame.

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So they didn't actualy "steal" anything? How is that underhanded?

And you comparing them to Microsoft? A company that has an illegal monopoly and charges people an arm and a leg for a crappy product? A company that is known for:

# Bloat code
# Backward incompatibility
# Perpetual upgrading (another way to suck out money)
# Vaporware
# Predatory practices
# Bundling of inferior products
# Bugs, bugs, and more bugs
# Insecurity
# Closed "standards"
# Mutilation of existing standards
# Lack of innovation
# Hostile treatment of customers via anti-counterfit measures

Ugh, just do a google search. There is plenty more.

lucas9000 · #10 02-08-2005, 11:34 AM

<swoon>