A premise is what i'm looking for to start with...
hmmm...can't think beyond a 9 yr young baby(??) whom we fondly call Google...
Think what can 0 and 1 do to this noblest of races...POLARIZATION...and how many poles have we grown up studying about...north and south , positive and negative...is that it?
but the Google thingy has the internet community divided into 3!!!...
lemme explain:
First there is this group that believes that Google is gonna do what Alexander the great couldn't...the eternal ravers of Google i'm talking about.For them Microsoft and Yahoo are nothing more than the brave spartans of 300 who will lay down their lives fighting the Google juggernaut.You say "internet" by slip of tongue in a conversation with them and the next thing you know is you are almost into believing the apparent superiority of this company.Google is the second best and the most kickass thing to have happened for them...(first being the Computer itself).They're above mundane things like search and all that.They have a hypermetropic view of Google as the all pervasive phenomenon.Google is,very soon, going to rule the world...
For the second kind...Google is Smart but not God.Page Rank and all that is fine...but how long a shelf life does it have?...is their reason...Fair enough...(how abt Contextual search???).Believers in Darwin's theory as they are...they extrapolate that one day Larry Page, the junior, will come and better the senior and kick his butts on that.Orkut,Youtube et al are all for them proof that Google's business model is past its prime.They wouldn't deny that nobody has even come close to tasting the kind of success that Google has with its search engine...but they believe there still are things out there that can create much bigger businesses than Google’s in a shorter time span.Right now, for them, somebody has got a better rulebook and is working on improving upon Google's health...
Then there is the third kind...the indifferent but selfish kind.Whenever they need info about anything...whom do they ask?...Google.And what is that?.Its a piece of software that crawls the web and gets you information on demand.No loyalties et al for this kind.Google , Lycos , Altavista ...they're all the same for this kind.Chandramukhi or Paro...whats the big deal...as long your job is done!!.They are least interested in Google...its only the search that matters..."mallika's pics or great deals on ipod".And thanks to the information explosion, if Google doesn't satisfy them...they do wag their tongue more than a bit!...poor G.
which kind am I???
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
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were u commissiond u rite dis 1 or are u actlly smitten wid d company?? :D
i belong to d 3rd typ 4 sure..
nice wrk, interestin & well written.. :)
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