Comments on: Google Commoditizes Everything but Google http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/google-commoditizes-everything-but-google my personal blog Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:02:35 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Joe Foote http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/google-commoditizes-everything-but-google/comment-page-1#comment-2960 Joe Foote Sun, 20 Nov 2005 02:26:49 +0000 http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/153#comment-2960 <p>Interesting post... I think it's going to be fascinating to see what happens with Google over the next 2 or 3 years. It seems like only yesterday that I was trying to persuade friends and family to give the little-known search engine a go because 'it just works really well'!</p> <p>I agree - by positioning to compete based on process rather than product, Google really is creating an internet-based commodity business as outlined in Schwartz's article. Almost anything created on the internet today is really fodder for Google, until we see a disruptive innovation some day in the future...</p> <p>I think some of the recent criticisms of Google's product efforts miss the point that Google is like the Dell of the internet - relentlessly improving their processes to maintain its position as the search engine king. Google is getting harder and harder to topple every day by virtue of their business model, probably, and its forays into things like webmail and RSS are really just side businesses.</p> Interesting post… I think it’s going to be fascinating to see what happens with Google over the next 2 or 3 years. It seems like only yesterday that I was trying to persuade friends and family to give the little-known search engine a go because ‘it just works really well’!

I agree – by positioning to compete based on process rather than product, Google really is creating an internet-based commodity business as outlined in Schwartz’s article. Almost anything created on the internet today is really fodder for Google, until we see a disruptive innovation some day in the future…

I think some of the recent criticisms of Google’s product efforts miss the point that Google is like the Dell of the internet – relentlessly improving their processes to maintain its position as the search engine king. Google is getting harder and harder to topple every day by virtue of their business model, probably, and its forays into things like webmail and RSS are really just side businesses.

]]> By: Michael McDerment http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/google-commoditizes-everything-but-google/comment-page-1#comment-2909 Michael McDerment Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:46:47 +0000 http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/153#comment-2909 <p>Wow...sorry about all the posts, but I just saw another great post by Cringely. Theories on how they will dethrone Microsoft. Pretty interesting:</p> <p>http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051117.html</p> Wow…sorry about all the posts, but I just saw another great post by Cringely. Theories on how they will dethrone Microsoft. Pretty interesting:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051117.html

]]> By: Michael McDerment http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/google-commoditizes-everything-but-google/comment-page-1#comment-2907 Michael McDerment Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:14:50 +0000 http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/153#comment-2907 <p>This is not leaving Mircosoft many options to secure a monopoly...The only one I can think of is altering your windows OS with automatic updates so it disallows any non IE browser....but wait a second...They got into lots of trouble last time they did something like this...</p> <p>Here is a great post concerning Microsoft's current state of affairs:</p> <p>http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051110.html</p> This is not leaving Mircosoft many options to secure a monopoly…The only one I can think of is altering your windows OS with automatic updates so it disallows any non IE browser….but wait a second…They got into lots of trouble last time they did something like this…

Here is a great post concerning Microsoft’s current state of affairs:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051110.html

]]> By: Atul Arora http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/google-commoditizes-everything-but-google/comment-page-1#comment-2900 Atul Arora Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:31:24 +0000 http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/153#comment-2900 <p>Isn't it a remote possibility that Google fears that Microsoft is going to use the next / future revs of IE to go after them by disabling Google Ads and ads in general.</p> <p>It will only take a FireFox Adblock extension-like feature on behalf of Microsoft to turn off all ads by default to cut off Google money supply. Remember at one point of time popup ads were all over the place and Google via its toolbar made them opt-in. Well Microsoft can certainly return a favor and make any kinds of Ads on page opt-in.</p> <p>I think the $1 bounty for pushing Firefox is just a defensive tactic on Google's behalf.</p> Isn’t it a remote possibility that Google fears that Microsoft is going to use the next / future revs of IE to go after them by disabling Google Ads and ads in general.

It will only take a FireFox Adblock extension-like feature on behalf of Microsoft to turn off all ads by default to cut off Google money supply. Remember at one point of time popup ads were all over the place and Google via its toolbar made them opt-in. Well Microsoft can certainly return a favor and make any kinds of Ads on page opt-in.

I think the $1 bounty for pushing Firefox is just a defensive tactic on Google’s behalf.

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