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'Google-creep' strikes again as website puts itself up for sale (Kiko Bell up)
The Guardian ^
| Tuesday August 22, 2006
| Richard Wray
Posted on 08/22/2006 12:44:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: ShadowAce
To: nickcarraway
"Google-creep" aka "competition"
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posted on
08/22/2006 12:47:02 PM PDT
by
Moral Hazard
(The "missing links" in evolution are nothing compared to the extraneous links in intelligent design.)
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posted on
08/22/2006 12:47:24 PM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: nickcarraway
When your product/service is copied, you need to innovate and make a better product/service to beat the copy. Capitalism @ work!
No wait, maybe they should have patented their online calendar so no one else can improve/copy it. /sarc
To: nickcarraway
I don't need to wonder how the people at Google feel about eeevil predatory corporations.
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posted on
08/22/2006 12:49:02 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(There are people in power who are truly evil.)
To: nickcarraway
It only takes Google to experiment in a particular online area to kill off fledgling businesses. That appears to be what happened to Kiko. Google launched a test version of its Google Calendar application in April, and that seems to have rung the death knell for Kiko. Danged capitalist competition, some good commie should put an end to this. < / sarcasm >
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posted on
08/22/2006 12:49:29 PM PDT
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: Moral Hazard
How DARE they provide a product that people want at a competitive cost!
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posted on
08/22/2006 12:49:39 PM PDT
by
Gordongekko909
(I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
To: nickcarraway
Resistance is futile.
You will be a-Google-lated.
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posted on
08/22/2006 12:49:52 PM PDT
by
Thrusher
("...there is no peace without victory.")
To: Moral Hazard
competition is good. I just wonder how many of the google fans are also the Anti-M$ crowd for doing similiar things.
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posted on
08/22/2006 12:50:34 PM PDT
by
for-q-clinton
(If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
08/22/2006 12:50:44 PM PDT
by
FReepaholic
(This tagline could indicate global warming.)
To: nickcarraway
The more they creep, the more diffuse they'll get, the worse a job they'll do on their core business, the more customers they'll lose to nimble little guys who come in under them.
That's just the way it works...
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posted on
08/22/2006 12:51:31 PM PDT
by
Antoninus
(Public schools are the madrassas of the American Left. --Ann Coulter, Godless)
To: nickcarraway
It only takes Google to experiment in a particular online area to kill off fledgling businesses. That appears to be what happened to Kiko. Google launched a test version of its Google Calendar application in April, and that seems to have rung the death knell for Kiko.I had never heard of kiko.com until now.
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posted on
08/22/2006 12:52:12 PM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
To: nickcarraway
What?!!!
An Interent start-up no one ever heard of going out of business?!!!
That's impossible!
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posted on
08/22/2006 12:53:33 PM PDT
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
To: nickcarraway
It reminds me of AT&T / Bell Labs years ago. Lots of cash to throw around, groundbreaking research, pet projects....and look at them now.
To: for-q-clinton
"I just wonder how many of the Google fans are also the Anti-M$ crowd for doing similar things."
I'll take "Google-creep" over "embrace and extend" any day.
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posted on
08/22/2006 12:55:39 PM PDT
by
Moral Hazard
(The "missing links" in evolution are nothing compared to the extraneous links in intelligent design.)
To: for-q-clinton
If you go to academia, the whacko libs there who dislike MS seem to love Google and have wet-dreams of being them. Weird. To me, Google 2006 is like MS 1996.
I don't think they will beat Paypal.
I don't think its a good sign when Page and Brin are only selling off Google stock.
To: nickcarraway
Wonder how that Ask Jeeves Calendar app is coming along?
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posted on
08/22/2006 12:57:48 PM PDT
by
fat city
("Journalists are sloppy, lazy and on expense account")
To: nickcarraway
It's not called "Google Creep". It's called "Competition." You may have heard of it. It's part of capitalism.
It's not like an online calendar is not an obvious idea or anything. For pete's sake.
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posted on
08/22/2006 12:59:22 PM PDT
by
MineralMan
(non-evangelical atheist)
To: nickcarraway
I'm not sure what the Kiko product is or what the Google alternative is. If it's a on-line calendar for your appointments, etc., do you really want Google to store your data? These are the people that seem to want to control all information. Doing a transaction with them, such as their paypay alternative, requires you to give them your social security number, as far as I know. If they aren't storing your calendar information, why use an online version instead of a desktop app or, heaven-forbid, a paper calendar?
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