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Has Google Peaked?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the glory-days dept.

nile_list writes "Robert X. Cringely's latest column explores just what the heck Google could be doing. 'Google likes to play the Black Box game. What are they DOING in all those buildings with all those PhDs?' He concludes that it's likely Google has peaked as a company: 'What if everyone is mainly wrong? What if search and PageRank and AdSense are Google's corporate apex. Most companies would be content with that, but Google isn't supposed to be like most companies. But what if they are?' His conclusion is that 'Microsoft's clearest threat still comes from Apple, though not the way most people expect.' It's an interesting read."

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  1. Whatever Google's doing... by Pakaran2 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ...I sincerely doubt it justifies an 83 P/E (as of Friday's close). Can we stop hyping them on Slashdot? Please? They're obviously getting enough hype already.

  2. Re:Google Earth by FxChiP · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    How is Gaim kludgy, anyway? You're connected to three unrelated networks, but they appear as one.
    You can call that kludgy in that it's sort of like they just threw everything together. I'd love it if you could more easily separate protocols/accounts in the buddy list, but instead, they had to go and make it all mesh together. It makes me wish I could code. *sigh*
    When you double-click on someone's name, Gaim automagically uses the right network to communicate with them. That's about the best you can do when nobody will standardize on a single IM protocol.
    If there's one bug I dislike about gaim, it's that it likes to sometimes add people from buddylists on different accounts to buddylists on other accounts of the same protocol. I don't call that a feature, I call it annoying; separate screen names have separate buddy lists for a freaking reason, dammit. Then again, they probably fixed it a few versions ago.

    By the way, it has nothing to do with the code, but the coders are jerk-offs, at least from what I saw. I mean, yeah, I'll admit to being a tad annoying in #Gaim, but they're brutal to people, especially newbies, and they seem to have an extreme prejudice against Gentoo.

    And I know I'll get modded down for this "anti-Gaim" post probably because the Gaim developers read Slashdot. But seriously, I think they dislike damn near every Linux distro except maybe (MAYBE) Debian. Possibly Linspire for all the sponsoring and crap. Everyone else is apparently an idiot.

    Gentoo users can be zealous idiots. That's obvious. Users of any distro can be zealous, including (and especially at times!) Debian.

    Sorry, but that exclusiveness "you don't use the same distro as us, so we don't have to help you" BS shouldn't fly in the OSS world.

    Hooray for unfair accusations!