Tuesday, December 14, 2004

BRIEF COMMENTARY ON GOOGLE... ADDING LIBRARIES

John Furrier has a post and a couple links to some commentary on Google:

"what a joke to think that Larry and Sergey are the next Bill Gates. John, when Gates was younger, he was a constant evangelist, deal-maker, BOGUer. He'd do anything to win. Larry and Sergey are, by comparison, cloistered, insulated, aloof bordering on arrogant. I'm sure they're smart, but in an academic way, which isn't the same thing as being smart in a commercial way. All their second acts have been duds, they're still lookiing for another hit. Also, they pick the wrong battles to fight, ones that have no bearing on their success. And they're really shitty at building consensus behind a developer platform, something that Bill excelled at, in the old days, when he was trying."

Meanwhile, Google is adding major research libraries to their database (from NYTimes, registration required). More here without registration.

No comments: