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[joey at metalab.unc.edu (Joey Carr)]

I have to preface this by saying that I have a sort of fetishistic
fixation on Google.  I love Google.

This acquisition is exciting because Google won the search engine wars
without becoming as much of a villain as Microsoft did in winning the
browser war.  I don't think I've seen anyone use a search engine except
Google in years.  Does anybody out there even bother with, like, Yahoo
anymore?

Google managed to obtain the monopoly by simply outperforming the
competition rather than leveraging their OS monopoly.  If Google has set
their sights on becoming the world leader in Blogging, then they're going
to bring more and better services to the blogging community than we've
ever seen.  Unless, of course, they decide to leverage their search-engine
monopoly to ensure that only Google blogs get read, which would be very
illegal if they profit by it.  Based on Google's current track record I'm
willing to trust that they'll do the right thing... so I'm excited for the
outcome.

-Joey

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Steven Champeon wrote:

> on Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:38:51AM -0500, Scott Lundgren wrote:
> > >all there, though, in one place. What's "decentralized" about that?
> > >That's about as centralized as you can get.
> > 
> > I was thinking about the reporting/journalism aspect (lots of people of
> > multiple viewpoints/experience vs. a news service) instead of the 
> > technical
> > architecture.
> > 
> > >Why? Google couldn't do this already, just by spidering the existing 
> > >sites?
> > 
> > True they could spider the existing sites. But considering what small
> > percentage of the web is indexed, I would think it would prohibitively 
> > slow
> > to spider across the internet noting when a blog is found.
> 
> Sure, but there are plenty of sites that show "most recently updated"
> stats and link to the blogs themselves. weblogs.com, for example.
> 
> > However if you have a dedicated chunk of information you know are all
> > blogs, then it becomes easier to index and see information patterns.
> > What I would be interested in seeing is a zeitgeist of blogs, like you
> > can see a zeitgeist of google's search terms.
> 
> You mean like Blogdex?
> 
>  http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/
> 
> 

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