Google Exec Hints At Future Open Platform

rsmiller510 writes "At the recent Web 2.0 Summit, Dave Girouard, who is president of Google's enterprise division, stated that his company's long-term goal is to open up the Google development stack to outside developers. If this is true, then it could have some serious long-term implications for developers who could use Google services in new and interesting ways."

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Google is good for search...

[syousef]

Google does search well (most of the time, and not just general weeb search - I like scholar for example). Obviously they must do the associated ads well since they make their money there. They also do Google Maps and Google Earth well, I must admit.

They don't do much else well in my opinion. Lots of hype for beta software or software they've assimilated and made buggy beta. They destroyed Deja news. (Google groups is quite buggy and has had big problems from time to time). I own a Gmail account but never use it because frankly i don't want someone else to keep my email for me (even what I delete). Chrome was awful and installed spyware that you had to go to some pain to delete. Picasa did nothing but crash for me. Every other product I've seen has been cool for the geek to play with but never become a really stable product. Google Web Toolkit sounded interesting for a while but someone turned me off it by telling me it was over-engineered and I don't have time to play much outside of work at the moment.

As for "Do no evil", I think they should change their motto. It's wearing thin and doesn't ring true when you suddenly double the cost of child care for your employees without compensating them in any way.

Google has to be one of the most overhyped companies on the planet.