John C. Dvorak observes:
"If you follow the Google strategy their incursions are leading directly down a path often discussed during the late 1990's -- a browser-centric Internet OS."
"Think of the potential advertising revenue you can generate when you own the entire desktop environment."
"This strategy may account for some unusual hires by Google including Rob Pike from Bell labs, one of the development team members for an unusual distributed OS called Plan 9, named for the wacky Ed Wood cult film, 'Plan 9 from Outer Space.' While Pike may have been brought in to help the company deal with its internal software used to control tens of thousands of clusters, there is speculation that Google wants to push out onto the desktop. The company is already toying with distributed grid computing with its obscure Google Computer project: http://toolbar.google.com/dc/offerdc.html."
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Source: CBS MarketWatch
Google Software Downloads
Google Toolbar, Google Desktop Search, Picasa Photo Organizer, Google Deskbar, Gmail Notifier, Keyhole
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See also:
The Google Browser - Pandia Search World
Google - the next Microsoft?
Google's Next Steps or Google in 2010
Web 2.0
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