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Report as: spam offensive BLin on 3/12/08 at 10am

You forgot to mention Google Calendar, Reader, and Docs. All of which, I use daily.

Report as: spam offensive Alumnus on 3/12/08 at 1pm

Before Google, AltaVista worked pretty well. Google just worked a little better (before), but now about 50% of my google searches just bring up the wikipedia article, and about 10 useless sponsored links. Gmail deserves credit, but Calendar, Reader, and Docs, in my opinion, while a step in the right direction, are pretty annoying and unwieldy. Google has done a lot of mediocre stuff because they made and continue to make so much money on ads.

Report as: spam offensive Jill on 3/12/08 at 9pm

Google Scholar is AMAZING.

Report as: spam offensive Amy on 3/14/08 at 1pm

You didn't mention googletext!! Best tool ever.

Report as: spam offensive Amy on 3/14/08 at 1pm

You didn't mention googletext!! Best tool ever.

Report as: spam offensive william buckley's ghost on 3/17/08 at 10am

Dude...look at Google's share price, I don't exactly think it is an unappreciated company. My problem with Google is my problem with all large data aggregators...there's a huge potential for abuse under certain circumstances.

Report as: spam offensive Google is overrated on 3/18/08 at 6pm

I think that nobody denies Google's contributions to the Web. However, I think that there has been too much hype around the company and that their contributions have been exaggerated. The market is just coming to terms with the true value of the company. It's quite common in high tech to have innovative companies whose value is exaggerated when they first show up and which finally settle in something reasonable. Think Cisco, Sun or Microsoft in the late nineties. The would wouldn't work either without routers, windows or many of the contributions from Sun (not only Java but also many of the developments they did for UNIX). Sooner or later the world learned about their true value and moved on to the next high tech phenomenon. Google is great with web search, but pretty much everything else they have done kind of sucks or didn't live up to the expectations created. Unless they come up with another great product, they are doomed to remain as the "internet search company", whatever its true value is.




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