In the gathering storm of warfare between Google and Microsoft for dominance in Internet searching, some of the things to watch for are: the impact of Google's impending IPO on company morale (and on its new millionaires); the fate of Microsoft's own search technology, expected for release later this year; the possibility, fateful for Google, that Microsoft will decide to make its new browser an integral part of the Windows operating system; and the promise of a secret Google effort known as Project Ocean, which will digitize the entire collection of the Stanford Library published before 1923 and no longer subject to copyright restrictions. (Project Ocean would make millions of digitized books available exclusively to Google users). There is also discussion within Google of the possibility of developing and marketing a phone with a built-in custom personal digital assistant that could let Google searchers work from anywhere they happened to be.
posted by Marcus Zillman |
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