Indexing the Desktop - One Possible Future
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A day will come where Google is as big, or bigger, perhaps, as Microsoft. Microsoft became the behemoth it is by innovation. Google is on the path to duplicate that level of success. While it is not likely at all that Google will take on the Windows operating system itself or other unrelated applications, it is highly likely that Google will continue its assault on all things web and email, and at one point become so potent in the marketplace that Microsoft is forced to ally with Google and deliver its products along with Windows.
Internet Explorer is at the end of its lifecycle, and Outlook is bloated with useless buggy features. Windows search is also useless and MSN search is only slightly better. Rumors of a Google browser have been around a while and though they have been neither confirmed nor denied, it seems likely that Google is developing the next generation of web browsers.
Google knows the guts of a web page better than any other company out there. It is only logical that the company will continue the desktop push, and with a foot in the door with Google Desktop and unlimited advertising revenue, Google is the next big contender for your desktop.
There is more than a little bit of irony that up until the release of Google Desktop, it has been faster to search a few billion Internet documents than to search your own hard drive. It's fair to say that so long as Google continues to one-up their competitors, everyone who was able to get in on the aforementioned IPO will remain quite happy.
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