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Google Fatigue Sets In
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| June 13, 2006
| Wade Roush
Posted on 06/21/2006 9:51:39 PM PDT by george76
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To: kingu
Most of my e-mail now goes through Google's Gmail
My condolences.
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posted on
06/21/2006 10:11:15 PM PDT
by
Terpfen
To: farlander
Google is evil - or at least it's founders are.
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posted on
06/21/2006 10:12:49 PM PDT
by
tdewey10
(It's time for the party to return to the principles of President Reagan.)
To: Terpfen
Hey, look at that--people realizing that Google doesn't offer anything truly useful besides searching!
lol. You are so right.
To: george76
Funny!
I started my own private blog, where I do random google searches and post them (Web, Images, Groups, News, etc)
Note: I didn't spam my stupid site
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posted on
06/21/2006 10:14:32 PM PDT
by
Number57
To: Terpfen
Google stock is a joke. It's grossly overpriced, the P/E is almost 70. They 1.4 billion in net income, less than 1/10 the size of Microsoft, and their stock is over $400 a share. Fear is the only thing keeping that stock afloat.
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posted on
06/21/2006 10:14:58 PM PDT
by
Lunatic Fringe
(Man Law: You Poke It, You Own It)
To: idkfa
"why do it online?"
Try to think conceptually - it makes perfect sense. As bandwidth increases, which it certainly is, so does the point of having web-based software.
When modems dialed in at 1200 baud (or less) no one could understand the point of graphic web pages. Then again few people think outside the box and that's where entrepreneurs are born.
Status quo in business gets you nowhere.
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posted on
06/21/2006 10:15:05 PM PDT
by
mgstarr
To: Terpfen
My condolences.
It's a total breath of fresh air. Our company e-mail accounts are so swarmed by spam due to their ancient age that cleaning it out kept two computers and half my company bandwidth occupied 24/7. Google does it for us for free, it has saved tremendous amounts of time, effort and costs - if that deserves condolences, than I'll take them every day!
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posted on
06/21/2006 10:16:14 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Yeah, I'll vote in 2006, just as soon as a party comes along who listens.)
To: Lunatic Fringe
Fear is the only thing keeping that stock afloat. What price are you shorting at?
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posted on
06/21/2006 10:18:09 PM PDT
by
paulat
To: kingu
swarmed by spam due to their ancient age You need to fire your IT guys. Spam can easily be filtered on any email system, yes even Microsoft Exchange. We use Exchange and after I purchased and installed Brightmail, our rate of spam hitting the Inbox dropped significantly.
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posted on
06/21/2006 10:22:02 PM PDT
by
Lunatic Fringe
(Man Law: You Poke It, You Own It)
To: mgstarr
It can't be that bad of an idea because Microsoft is going to try to imitate it with "Windows Live". While at the same time trying to squeeze as much revenue out of their shrink-wrapped Office software as possible.
The status quo with Microsoft software is that you run bigger and fatter hardware under your desk each Windows or Office release to run bigger and fatter software on it. Google might stumble with their online software efforts but someone will eventually get it right.
To: kingu
It definitely deserves condolences, from a design and features standpoint. Without getting into a rant, let's just say they could do GMail much better, and with a UI that didn't completely blow.
From what you've described, anything would've been better than your corporate network.
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posted on
06/21/2006 10:23:57 PM PDT
by
Terpfen
To: mgstarr
Stupid article - web-based programs will trump single install vesions without a question.I thought Netscape was going to be the universal desk-top 12 years ago with web-based applications. I wonder what ever happened to Netscape?
To: george76
Why is there any option other than pornography?
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posted on
06/21/2006 10:26:36 PM PDT
by
BJClinton
(There's plenty of room for all God's creatures, right next to the mashed potatoes.)
To: kingu
I did a test between Gmail, Yahoo and Excite on spam and there's no contest. Gmail is the only intelligent one and Excite hasn't a brain at all. Yahoo is somewhere in the middle.
The people who poo-poo Google either haven't a clue or have a vested interest in dying technology. And I'm not singing the praises of Google, nor do I care about the stock, but the business concept and entrepreneurship is invigorating. This is what drives America folks, not crumbling old tech. You'd think conservatives would appreciate that.
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posted on
06/21/2006 10:26:56 PM PDT
by
mgstarr
To: paulat
I'm not short on Google, although I wouldn't doubt it's in one of my funds.
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posted on
06/21/2006 10:29:57 PM PDT
by
Lunatic Fringe
(Man Law: You Poke It, You Own It)
To: idkfa
I don't think it's about what it is now. I think it's about what it can be. I could see a lot of possibilities in embedding a spreadsheet like this in a web page. Running this as an applet could be cool.
To: mgstarr
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posted on
06/21/2006 10:36:00 PM PDT
by
paulat
To: stripes1776
I wonder what ever happened to Netscape? Like the Neanderthal, Netscape was out-evolved by another line of descent.. Firefox..
Both came from Mozilla... ( which is still around ) but Netscape was so focused on fighting with Microsoft, they lost sight of what the internet was all about..
I started browsing the internet with Netscape, but reverted to Mozilla..
Then I found Firefox, and have never looked back..
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posted on
06/21/2006 10:36:24 PM PDT
by
Drammach
(Freedom... Not just a job, it's an adventure..)
To: Fish_Keeper
You can certainly tell the difference on this thread between the people who write code and those that maintain it.
Note, I do neither (finance operations geek) but I can tell the difference. Netscape may have been right, just with bad timing - that happens a lot. Microsoft got a lot of their Window's GUI interface from Xerox. Right concept, bad timing.
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posted on
06/21/2006 10:36:54 PM PDT
by
mgstarr
To: DesScorp
This is a load of crap. Google has some of the best software on the web. Gmail is my primary mail account now. It absolutely rocks. Everything Microsoft is doing is a reaction to Google.
I agree Gmail rocks.
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posted on
06/21/2006 10:38:46 PM PDT
by
Critical Bill
(An awareness of the Muslim contradiction must gnaw in even the dullest fundamentalist brain.)
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