Google takes one more step towards being just another Yahoo!

Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:08:00 AM

Yes, I still believe that Google is just another Yahoo and today they take just another step towards this with the release of their new free Calendar service.  I have actually used my Yahoo calendar service since Jan 21, 2001 and I know I will not make the switch.

Whats next for Google?   Sports scores, weather, horoscopes... Oh wait they already have that as well dont they?  Ever click the "Personalize Home" link on the top right?  Yup, its there.  I wonder if I can add a view of my calendar and email to that personalized home as well, just like Yahoo.

Maybe I can save them the time in dreaming up new crap.  Follow this link and here is a complete list of crap they can rip off to target the web user.

So now that they are almost caught up to what the industry was doing 5 years ago lets see what NEW stuff they can bring to the market...

7 Comments

  • Karl said

    Your google posts on here continue to amuse me...keep it up! God I hope ur being serious, because it wouldn't be nearly as funny if you were just joking around.

  • Kemal Emin said

    Rob,

    I think you are being completely unfair to both google and its visitors (users). May be they are offering things what yahoo is currently or was 5 years ago offering however you probably do know that, these people just don't sit there and say 'hmm.. lets make a horoscopes service'. I believe, If they have done it, then most probably there was a demand for it. Leave that alone, let this be their only downside but why not try and realize what they changed over the past few years?

    I don't feel the need to state google's phylosophy here but there is a fact that these guys have changed the way most things happen on web when it comes to searching, advertising and now with their mail. And I believe you know about their other services (which Microsoft tends to copy - very unusal!!). Do you deny this? or have you turned a blind eye to the advertising system they introduced and changed every single aspect of traditional internet advertising (which then, yahoo copied - now this is unusual)

    If you are making a criticism on this subject, why aren't you including MSN Search to your comments? are they better? or are they different? or else, what is it? You should answer this question.

    You are offering your own thoughts, so we must respect. But if the world at large have heard the name Google - a great company with great leaders with a great vision, its because millions and millions of people have actually fell in love with what they are offering. Once pioneers, now trying to catch up.

    I wander what will you say when Windows Vista is launched? its probably going to be on the lines of: "So now that Microsoft is almost caught up to what Apple was doing 5 years ago lets see what NEW stuff they can bring to the market..."

    Think different! Because people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who'll do it (Apple's Think different - manifest - 1998)

    regards,

    Kemal EMIN

  • Jon Galloway said

    The two advantages I see to Google's (re)implementation of these services are improved user interfaces and open user data.

    Yahoo's interfaces are okay, but as a frequent user of both systems, I prefer Google's. It's easier to work with, and it stays out of the way. GMail devotes 90% of the screen space to the e-mail; with Yahoo it feels like half the screen is taken up with ads or other stuff that doesn't apply to the task at hand.

    Another big difference is user data. Google makes their data easy to import, export, and interoperate with. Their mail offers POP and SMTP, their Calendar offers iCal and even iCal RSS feeds. Yahoo's services are a lot more closed off. In some cases you have to pay for access; in others (Yahoo Notepad, for example) you just can't export your data.

  • Khuzema said

    It seems you will not take any money from Google for Ads By Google on left hand side of this page.

    It seems also that if Microsoft copies from Lotus, Mac OS etc its Ok but when anybody else does it, it pops them.

    Anyway we expect Google bashing from MSFT, just do the survey of the blogs (blogs.msdn.com / weblogs.asp.net) how many entries are made bashing Google for one thing or another, or how some of bloggers found more accurate results using www.live.com.

    DONT use blogs to pour your frustration on competitor, People out there just love Google.

    thanks & regards

    Khuzema, Kuwait

  • Puleen said


    Rob,

    You've always been anti-Google, and I think one day it will catch upto you. I think you have set your bar to just MS and Yahoo standards when it comes to things, sadly your overall picture (or view of other things) not Yahoo or MS is wrong.

    That's just my 2 cents, and you know it! :)

    Cheers!

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