Uh, oh. "make a big change in the world."
Time to get ready to short this pig.
Valley hyperbole -- they want to "change the world" by being the next Microsoft. And I'm not short because they certainly have a chance to do it.
Remember Sun's slogan from a few years back, "the Network is the Computer"? Likely many such things, it wasn't wrong, just in the wrong time and place.
With full-text book searching, newsgroups, and opt-in indexing of corporate databases and directories, Google is vastly increasing its status as the leading knowledge base, as well as giving owners the ability to monetize knowledge (with a commission to Google).
The Google Browser due in 2005 is going to be a next generation quasi-operating system, the platform on which a variety of productivity, collaboration, entertainment, search and commerce tools will be built.