Google Powerhouse?

Don't get me wrong, I love Google; it's just the apparent overload of buying companies like YouTube that concerns me.





I want your opininion. What do you make of Google's obsessive monopolizing of everything Web 2.0 related? Right now they're huge in AJAX (if you don't believed me, check out Gmail or Google Calendar) and the leader in search technology. I mean, in the year 2015, does everyone want to be logging on to their Google ISP account?





PS Sorry for the apparent lack of points; something happened to my account. I had about 500 pts.

Google Powerhouse?
Watch what you say about google, or you might mysteriously lose more points!!





I am concerned about the size of their market share too. I like the idea of Wikia's search engine (although they are still g-powered at the moment, I think).





Have a look at the link...
Reply:Realize that people were saying the same thing about Yahoo when it was getting started. I used to be a sort of conspirator against Google, buzzwords like "They log all your mail!" were always on my tongue, and the ever growing company seemed too big for its own good.





But I realized that it's alright, their services are really good, and even though everything is directed through them, what can they do with the information? If the government really wants it, they'll get it from Yahoo just as readily as they would get it from Google. Plus, if you don't have anything to hide, why bother? I just see it as a large convenience.





If Google is monopolizing for their gain for some evil purpose, I see a class-action lawsuit coming up. Besides that, just don't do anything illegal that they can trace ;-)
Reply:yes it is no surprise. google is becoming extremely powerful, and pretty soon going to have control of a lot of things that people won't like and probably won't know of yet. At the current time, google is able to track pretty much every ip, because almost all sites go through google.com
Reply:Yep, they're powerful, sure enough. They're creative, too! I hadn't thought of it as, "monopolizing," inasmuch as there's so much else of ajax going on in other places. But I have myself a gmail account, and I've seen how, for most of the stuff I'd been paying good money before, Google has a reasonable replacement. I moved four whole websites there (one .org and three .com), each with its own, now, email, blog, forum, start (search-oriented plus news, etc.) page, shared calendars and documents, two with shared spreadsheets for billing. A great money saver for all for of my clients!