Where is Google Going Part III
Another way to see where Google is going is to look at the top hires they are bring into Google. Here are few of the top ones and what their expertise has been:
| Marc Lucovsky | One of Windows chief architects at Microsoft |
| Kai-Fu-Lee | Head of Microsofts’s Natural Internative Services Division - working on voice interface for Windows |
| Vint Cerf | Codeveloper of TCP/IP, Internet’s protocol. Specialty in Internet architecture |
| Andy Rubin | Developer of new mobile phone OS |
| Rob Pike | Lucent’s Bell Labs: Writing a bit-mapped interface for Unix |
| Louis Monier | eBay: online retail searches specialty |
Some of patterns you see in the hiring are OS Design, compiler optimization, distributed systems architecture.
Now take another look at Goggle vers Microsoft
| Microsoft | ||
| Hotmail | Gmail | |
| Desktop | Microsoft Desktop | Google Desktop |
| Blogging | MSN Spaces | Blogger |
| Instant Message | MSN Instant Messenger | Hello |
| Photo Management | Photo Story | PICASA |
This is interesting, particularly when there is talk of a “Google Office” marshalling in on Microsoft Offices’s territory. But don’t expect Google to replace Microsoft soon. Some of the Google apps, such as Picasa, only run on Windows for the time being. But this scares Bill Gates. Picasa is better than Microsoft Story at the moment. Gmail is better than Hotmail. MSN Spaces blogger tool, though, gives Google’s older Blogger a run. And MSN has a better Instant Messager at the moment. The race is on. The winner will be the consumer.