Google’s free hosting service is just one more step in the direction of taking over pretty much every facet of the internet from businesses that have been around a lot longer and do things a lot better than Google ever will. The Google Page Creator is simply wonderful, and it’ll be great for people who have no idea how to create webpages but want an online presence so they can brag to their friends that theyve got a website. The thing is, though, Google is going to build social networking into this thing at some point, and at that point it stops becoming a nice free webpage creator and becomes something that could effectively kill MySpace. With the type of information Google stores and the ease of use for getting it via their search, MySpace would have absolutely no chance whatsoever to compete with them. Yes, they’ve got jillions of users, but I can pretty much guarantee that Google would convert 80% of those within a year. MySpace might be the cool site of the moment, but Google is the cool site ALWAYS, and they would have no problem taking over and ruling the social networking scene. You can forget about TagWorld and any of the other competitors, because Google already has Google Video, Google Book Search, Froogle, Google Talk, Gmail and a thousand other applications they could build in to this page creator to turn it into the ultimate social networking tool.
Google has had Blogger & Orkut for a couple of years now and has not made even a dent in the Social Networking space
Blogger is the principal hosting ground for zillions of Spam blogs (splogs) and as Orkut … well, the less said the better
Perhaps it would be easier for Google to get a man onto Mars
Their recent launches do not seem to repesent a coherent strategy. As someone else said … they seem to be adopting a ‘Spray & Pray’ strategy
Would suit them best to stick to their core competence – Search (in which they rock)
“businesses that have been around a lot longer and do things a lot better than Google ever will.”…
which of google’s services are you unimpressed with? on the whole I’m a big fan of what they have to offer…