Google is building a terrible empire

today I saw Article " /span> Baidu vs Google: Excellent and great ", with emotion, baidu and Google only compete in the search engine, but on the whole, they cannot compete with Google. Google is constructing a terrible empire, google search is only the tip of the iceberg in this empire, where more products and services are being developed and implemented. In fact, what makes Microsoft, Oracle and other companies feel terrible is not their search services, but from high-speed networks, operating systems to the entire cloud computing platform. These are the cornerstone of this empire. As shown in the figure below (it took two whole hours to build), from the most basic high-speed networks and new energy sources (such as investing $36 million in wind power plants ), to the operating system Chrome OS, mobile operating system Android, browsers and other software basic platforms, as well as application engines (Google App Engine), communication platforms (wave), Google Earth and other forms of application platforms. From the history of computer development, "Large hosts --> minicomputers --> desktop PCs --> laptops (more than desktops now)" may be the world of smartphones and browsers in the future, google can rely on Android and chrome browsers to integrate various services to win the world. Google Earth can provide many services in the future, and even form a complete service chain (transportation, hotel, tourism, environmental protection ...), you can also construct a virtual game world like a reality.

In addition to the basic software platform, application platform, and search service, Google also has some core services.Such as email service (I can't do without Gmail now), map service, openSource codeCommunity(Code.google.com), browser portal (igoogle, I have been using), etc. Google can useCodeThe Community attracts enough talents, because talent is the most important asset of the company and a key factor in long-term competition. This is also a wise move for Google.

Google is truly at risk. Although it has already made a lot of money by relying on search engines today, some software giants can still share online advertising services, and cannot always rely on search engines. This also draws on YahooLessons learned. When Yahoo was just becoming a web portal, it was not expanding in time and there was not enough innovation. As a result, it plummeted. From the market value of $ more than 100 billion to today, it was only billion USD in the zone, and almost sold itself to Microsoft. Google cannot repeat the same mistakes, nor do it. Google ZhengBuilding an empire is not just an Internet empire, but a software empire, a media empire, and an information empire far beyond the internet.

I have reposted an article"How Twitter revolutionizes Google ", Now I think this is impossible,Twitter is indeed popular, just like Sina Weibo today, but Google is not limited to search services. Although 95% of Google's revenue is still from online advertising. The future is still quite variable, but mobile services, mobile phones, and Earth game services can all become new growth points, and even enter some traditional fields to make profits in new energy.

[new Note: although for some reason, google's high-quality services cannot be used all the time. People are still very concerned about Google and like Google. In the past two weeks, this article has received more than 360 comments, attracting more than 30 thousand people to access it, this is the best explanation.

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Google empire (many others are not listed, such as Google TV, Gtalk im, Community Orkut, blog blogger, jotspot (Wiki) gears offline technology, large-scale data processing technology mapreduce/ Sawzall, Distributed Database Technology bigtable/ sharding, digital library, etc)