Thursday, November 1, 2007

Google hitting 700 mark

In the after hours trading, google has hit a $700 dollars a share mark. What is wrong with people in this world. Why do keep endorsing this monopolizing every market segment it touches giant. Everyone remembers the time when Microsoft became the "bad guy". Is Microsoft a still bad guy or has Google replaced and surpassed Microsoft in its evil schemes.

Just look at what they have or are trying to monopolize. The Search - now they can decided and enforce their own rules on who should appear in their search results. Never before have the search engines dictated how one should build their site and what content and links one could have on it. But thanks to Google, webmasters all over now have to build their site around Google's rules and requirements. Why is it that we are giving up our right as a consumer to tell corporations what we want, not what they want us to want.

Next is YouTube, the video sharing at its best, has been monopolized by Google, albeit not started by them, but certainly in the good ol' spirit of Microsoftyism, acquired and turned into a sole monopoly by Google. No other website commands such popularity and user involvement than YouTube, and now Google will be able to tell us what we can upload or watch on it. Sure, you might make an argument that people can easily switch over to MetaCafe or anyone else, I would reply, sure people could go back to Yahoo or MSN for search, but they wont, because a few people do not like change and will suffer through limitations and abuses until they become unbearable. Fortunately for Google, they know how the human mind works, and realize that they must get people accustomed to they own way slowly. People don't like change, but change is always good.

Then there is the social networking, they tried to buy Facebook, but were refused at the door. So they started their own Social Networking API, got most of the Facebook competitors on board, will now command a huge army of developers and providers to steer their way to victory over Facebook.

For now, this is it. Take care.

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