WWW runs on it (and even this Blogger!!!).
The Invincible Swayer.
Best of all!!
This is what pops in our heads, when we hear the word "google". Being an engineer and a software enthusiast, Google appeals to me in so many ways. Its products, being the most innovative and technically robust charms every developer. The 100cent delivery to evreything it promises, and much more.
But lately the google story is pushing me to think over. What is it thats making Google such a giant. It all began with two super normal persons writing some super efficient lines of codes to get a search engine working. Larry Page and Sergrey Brin, the two culprits! It was an excellent search engine, and every body knows this and appreciated it too. But today Google is not about search engine. Its a company that ruling all faces of Internet industry. Does those originally written codes delivering so much to Google??? Obviously NO.
If we look at what Google products are, we see these are strategically acted plans to gobble up the www inc. Google is rising on its management & business expertise rather than its genius employees. Lets have a look:
Google Earth, originally called Earth Viewer and created by Keyhole Inc. Google saw immense potential in GPS based systems, and instead of creating one, it bought it!
Media is whats running internet now a days. This time Google did tried to give it a shot through Google Video, but... crashed and burnt! What it does... Simple, buy out YouTube, the leader in www-media!!
SNS (Social Networking Sites), another buzz in internet industry. Google affiliated Orkut. Orkut sucked big time in western states and landed nowhere against Myspace and Facebook. Now here is where Google makes it next move: OpenSocial. Ties up with leading SNS like Hi5, Myspace and others (not Facebook, thats real competitor) and brings on a layer of OpenSocial toall present SNSs. OpenSocial would actually give developers a common interface to the SNSs to let the develop there own applications. Now if you can get all your friends and messages on a single platform through OpenSocial, why go for Facebook!!!
News Buzz!!! : While i was writing this blog, my friend Diptanu interrupted me and told a new google story. He was actually raving a magazine and find out that Google has just tied up with some hardware manufacturers and communication carriers to beat iPhone and launch GPhones!!! Go ahead Google, screw all!
Now all this is stimulating me to think.
Nothing can get better than this.
Talent and powers exploited to fullest.
Marketing and business strategies at its peak.
Whats so technical behind this giant???... I guess nothing.
Who made "Google Inc"???... I guess its management crew and not the bunch of developers.
Would i end up writing some lines of codes that would be actually managed by some top level heads as their business tools???... I guess so.
Should i take the next exam and creep into MBA to make something BIGGER than Google Inc.???... I guess...
...Beacause what Larry Page and Sergrey Brin did is nothing as compared to what Google Inc did to make its name and fame!!!...
Hhmmmm....
