Aug
24
2005Google Talk (and Google Talk)
24
2005
So, Google has launched its own instant messenger system. That’s swell, but where’s the innovation? Google Maps was innovative - hella innovative. But this just looks like vanilla instant messaging. I think if Google’s not careful, they’re going to fall into the AltaVista trap. The quality of Google’s search results are decaying, and yet they seem mainly focused, instead, on developing new products for the simple reason that they, well, haven’t developed them yet. I guess when you’re worth billions of dollars, it’s hard to consider it a waste of resources to mess around with side projects like this. But when this one-company dotcom bubble bursts (and it will), it will probably wish it stuck to its bread and butter a bit… better.
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