Is Google The New Microsoft?

[mandy]

SiliconValley sources ...compare Google's ruthless and paranoid culture today with the Microsoft of old...

... let's just say that their ultimate aim seems to me to be, 'One Google under Google, for which it stands.'"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/26/...microsoft/
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/24/techno...nted=print

[mandy]

More google press coverage  :twistedevil:

The innocent prodigy that grew into the market predator

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/...73,00.html

More than a few in Silicon Valley think Google is now simply too brash, too flush with its own success, to avoid breaking its famous founding motto: "Don't be evil".

[mandy]

A related article:

Google shares rose above $700 this week, making the search giant worth more than Cisco, Intel, Apple, or IBM, but still less than Microsoft and General Electric, if just barely. Is the company really worth that kind of money or is this just the effect of a bubble market? Google is on a tear, that's for sure, but I see a few potholes ahead that the company could avoid but probably won't. Part of this stems from Google starting to look, in some ways, a bit like Microsoft. Uh-oh.

I think Google has in the works a global strategy so sweeping and audacious that it is breathtaking, but that's for a future column. This week I want to point out where Google is screwing up, why, and what they should do about it...

full article: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/...03354.html