I think they got it all wrong.
No, that's not it.
Now this is what I'm talking about.
(The only thing you shall ever see and start with, nothing else matters. I really believe that removing also the last 2 pieces is an option that should be configurable for the human user. Most probably it has to go since we will not be bound to a single interface or display of whatever sorts, but just being here and react in the way I that I could actually make the best use of. E.g. I have about 12 devices surrounding me that could be the receiving end to my wishes (TV, iMac, MacBook, some Notebook, a few mobile phones, fixed-line phone, digital camera, logitech bluetooth speaker, logitech sound system, AppleTv, iPod(s) ...)
(Did I mention that I want to open the first google office in my neighborhood and really do groundbreaking work in knowledge management and give part of the people what they want, even though most of them don't and won't realize this. It would be the most revolutionary work environment with all things going crazy, I would even use the local 10'000 people as the testbed and then expand to cover the next 1.5 million and then the world (kind a like of Pinky and the Brain
, no really!, I think with the right mentor it could work and the google team could have an impact on the world! ;))
As always I want everything now and don't want to wait another 20 years before they think they got it right.
Or why do I still feel the same way as I felt when I was working with my first palm pilot?
I'm trapped, for almost 20 years and more we use the same technology and were still in the early precambrian, might be the at the beginning of hadean. My clock is ticking and boy do I want to see the next era. Not just a couple of hundred million evolution cycles. Come on, an e-Ink eReader or a iPhone is nothing else that just a couple cycles in the evolution of the same.
But it is clear that none of the Google products really have a future.
Why?
Because the simple search that delivered THE results was the key to success. Everything else has to go. All attempts to steer away from this will ultimately fail.
Slowly they are learning, sometimes the hard way. But they are trying to fix things and get rid of the unnecessary baggage which you really have to thank them for. They make our lives easier with this and remove the clutter.
You'll see that they start to incorporate our other senses into their want to serve us. We can talk now, throw pictures at them.
There is no need for an icon to tell me that I can speak now.
Soon you'll be thinking of things, hovering over items with your eyes, coughing to it, showing it your eye and it'll determine that you have a grey star, measuring the body temperature from pictures the cam takes, sizing you up. Finally using deep neural networks and their future compatriots to really do the trick and not just keeping a stick straight up on an old typewriter ;))
I understand that they need the labs (where I would like to get old) and buy other peoples projects and ultimately erase everything and gobble something up that really belonged to search in the first place. That's evolution. We have to see and understand to be able to improve and evolve. Or not and just let nature take care.
But that's not all: The Internet is 99,99% full of crap, even search is today not capable to provide the quality information to the desired level of information one needs. Pick any subject of which you have never ever heard anything before and try to learn something in less than a minute and be confident that the info provided is above average quality. There are gazillions of examples that I could come up with, where search fails today but will not tomorrow. I would like to see an automatic rating system, with some additional personal preference list, based on texts that I read before and would like to consult or count in on the next time. So for example Steven Levy, which I tend to read.
search is the ultimate answer (approximately 41.9999, maybe 42 we'll see), there's no need for anything else, but constant improvements to such things as Now, Real-time, my own information returned in searches etc. and a dynamic system in which one can freely roam around and always come back.
So every time google decides to kill a product we shall rejoice because we might be one or multiple steps going into the future direction of search. Hopefully at an increasing rate.
My daily companion for many years, almost always there for me to provide me with the great insight to all and beyond, consumed over all imaginable devices and programs almost 24 by seven. It's time to say goodbye and may your DNA be the basis of the future search, that will finally bring all together.
Why? The flood of content on the internet is unbearable, there is no automatic aggregator, even considering foreign language sources, no rating system, no visualization over time, but it's desperately needed, since we have now billions of information sources all reporting about the same. Most should not even report since they don't add anything of value and should be considered spam. Search shall provide me the means to live a healthier live, only reading the condensed news and articles that really contain or add value.
Most of the products have no future, like
blogger.com, on which I write this entry. It's prehistoric, it should've gone a long time ago, it is so out of fashion, still cannot drag and drop pictures into the composing area, having to type in some nondescript serif font that I hate, looking at a screen that is not really optimized, having a lot of icons I never clicked, all distracting the pureness of writing this blog entry.
Why can I not just start typing at search and it'll be an entry to my online being, that I then can use in whatever way pleases me. The only thing you cannot take away from me is the Google logo and the new search field. Where if it pleases me I can ask to have a word in bold, change the font temporarily, switch off the screen, look up a phrasal verb definition, grab some image that if selected will be directly integrated into my entry (not calling it blog anymore). I can then command a million blogs and target the audience without having to have circles from somewhere else.
Visualization is crucial to most of us that have visual sight, so why not let me choose to view everything in the different models there are. Show me all in a linked map, display everything in an endless calendar, whatever format the calendar be, allow me to limit or expand in any direction, let me be the creator of my own world based on some initial models. There are endless things that can be achieved and all starts at search.
Lately Google has added some to search but many things still are feeling very unnatural to start with and won't let you expand from where you come but direct you to the ultimate doom which is having a hundred or more tabs/windows open and never actually allowing us to retrace back to where we started.
To Google, stay focused, deliver the ultimate, get rid of everything but search.
The products that have to go and soon:
(don't have the time for all, so please fill in some details for each product of Google, i.e. help me finish this list):
Has been doomed from the beginning, there is no real sense to try to keep the old technology alive, why should I care if I reach somebody over email, or IRC, chat, messenger, even over snail mail.
Wouldn't it be cool to write a message, from search, to my grandmother and it will let me choose to send it at a cost of $1, which will get printed and delivered to her mailbox.
Doomed, some features seem to creep into search and once they recognize that all of it must go it'll end quickly.
Doomed.
Already gone, no?
Doomed.
Doomed, but could be the start of search (will not call it search OS).
Doomed from the beginning, together with Chrome will be assimilated into search.
Please continue and update this list a somewhat ok start is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products
This is version 0.1 of this blog entry. It's late, too late and I could still continue on forever. But my younger son will appreciate it if I bring him to bed, instead of letting hime sleep on the couch.
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