Google Creates Web-based Spreadsheet

Reuters ^ | 6/5/06 | Reuters

[cowtowney]

Google is going back to the future by reinventing the spreadsheet as a Web-based application, seeking a simpler on-ramp for consumers to input data into databases, the company said on Monday.

The Web search leader will begin a limited trial on Tuesday of the classic software application defined by its grid of rows and columns and simple calculating capabilities that allow users to enter and organize information in structured form.

[xcamel]

They added google maps for pda's and cell phones today also.
www.google.com/gmm

[tomzz]

Bad idea.

[Daus]

Hmmm... Slowing but surely, Google Office. They had already acquired Writely a while back for the word processing side.

[pointsal]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN....

M/S sure does not have my best interest at heart!

[TexasTransplant]

There are so many free spreadsheets out there, what is the point?

I need a decent data base program, ACCESS sucks, I used to use Enable DB but I lost the software, it worked just fine, easy and small a few dot commands and I could analyze anything that I needed to.

TT

[TexasTransplant]

Enable was also Integrated so that I could query and print envelopes and letters. ACCESS is so clunky that I'd rather cut and paste than trust (or learn all of the little nuances)

TT

[Sonny M]

Hmmm... Slowing but surely, Google Office.

I've been saying that for a long time.

Microsoft knows who its real competitor is going to be.

[Alberta's Child]

On a related topic, has anyone here used any of the advanced Google Map applications like Map Plus?

I'm willing to pay for a one-year subscription, but I need to know if it allows the used to transfers latitude/longitude data in tabular format to other Windows-based applications.

[roverman2K6]

yes, this is the old APP portal thing popular a few years ago. It will never take off.
what worries me is what google Will do with all the data from these online apps, you can bet the first thing you will have to do is agree to their "usage agreement" which like their email allows them to troll through your data, then they sell it in a million ways, not too our advantage.

[SamAdams76]

Everybody comes to blah-blah-blah about the latest offerings by Google but meanwhile Google continues to get bigger and more powerful. Forget Microsoft, Google is about to blast right by them and for the people who were blah-blah-blah'ing about how rich Bill Gates was - - - well the founders of Google are going to be trillionaires.

[Revolting cat!]

well the founders of Google are going to be trillionaires.

Only if they save their pennies and invest them in Treasuries - I just read the boys' yearly salaries are $1 each.

[kralcmot]

google is doing all the right things

we (most of us) have been saying for years that the day of the
propriatory program is over...that it should all be web-based

we envisioned a day when applications would be resident on
servers...so we did not have to purchase the software, but could use
it for free

i switched to gmail because i do not have to back it up or change my
address or contact list when i change internet providers

now google is testing a spreadsheet

then it will be a data base

then a word processor

then a .... what's left??

the O/S is already free from Linux and others

and we won't need a robust O/S if we have just a core that allows us
to get on the net....

the evolution of the net is staggering and google stock is still too
high for me to consider...but they are doing all the right things....

well...with the exception of editing web sites to suit their
predjudices....and...another company will develop a algorithm to solve
that...

[ark_girl]

You don't feel good about having your financial calculations sold to the highest bidder....like...say...the government of China?

Google and Yahoo haven't exactly proven themselves to be trustworthy stewards of data.

[SamAdams76]

The $1 salary is intended to take attention away from how much stock they own. At last reckoning, the two founders had some $13 billion each in stock. And not just any Google stock but Class B Google stock - which gives them 10 votes per share (as compared to Class A stock which is just one vote per share).

The Google founders are still in their 20s and are much richer than Bill Gates was when he was their age. It's scary to think how much they will be worth then they are 40.

[glorgau]

They added google maps for pda's and cell phones today also.

Sorry, Google Maps does not work on your Palm Treo-650.

[Sonny M]

Will do with all the data from these online apps, you can bet the first thing you will have to do is agree to their "usage agreement" which like their email allows them to troll through your data, then they sell it in a million ways, not too our advantage.

That is a guarantee.

I own stock in google, and I can tell you point blank, that is their goal, always has been their goal, and will always be their goal.

They will have their own version of M.O., but it will have that catch.

And it will make money.

Not to ironic, but microsoft figured out that google was after them, when google started going after the same type of talent that microsoft goes after, when you compete for talent.....you will compete in the market.