Google is not a search company
People refer to Google as a search company. It’s not a search company.
Google is an AI company. They are not working on a search engine, they are working on a knowledge engine. Searching is just one aspect of the organization of information that google is working on. It (searching) also
happens to be profitable right now.
Quite frankly, it wouldn’t surprise me if Google, AI, and library science all meld into one cross-disciplinary
wunderfest at some point in the future.
It is even more interesting to look at how Microsoft is interested in dominating the Search Industry. This may be where
MS really screws up. They’ve missed the point. People don’t want searches, they want the information. By dumping a huge amount of capital and time into the search space (even though they’ve missed the point) they will tie up precious
resources and loose their strategic focus. They (MS) will become attenuated as an organization allowing competetors the opening they need to challenge MS.
Man I wish I could get a job at Google.
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Funny, I’ve been entertaining some of the same thoughts myself, recently. When looked at as a burgeoning artificial intelligence, networked into a huge chunk of the world’s information… including private conversations…
Comment by hatter — September 6, 2004 @ 12:38 pm