People are wondering if we are in front of Google’s ruin. My opinion, as I just commented at Google Blogoscoped, is as follows:
It won’t happen soon. But it will, for sure.
Probably not because of this drifts, but because of technology and needs moving onto more relevant sources of information: social networks and other kind of streams.
Indeed, it’s a very interesting shift. At first we didn’t have indexed the web. Then search engines came in, and we had access to every corner of the internet. And now we need more: we have the chance to rely on people we know or trust (or on people known or trusted by our contacts) and consume information through this “fast-food network”.
It is going to be the end of Google, yes. But we are just at the beginning of the end. They will be around for a good time more.
But Facebook is reaching first place quickly, and they will strike hard next week with the announcement of email service.
In my opinion, Google needs to make a bold move and go all-in with Buzz, implementing it right into search results pages, while making Buzz behave like a really powerful social network.
What they did pushing it into Gmail was a dumb move. Facebook is currently on everybody’s mail, every day, and people actually care about what happens there. But they achieved this by being useful. Google did that once too, but now they think users are “their personal army” and they can make something succeed just because they have the userbase.
Winds of change around here! For sure.

I found this wise ilustration lost in a dusty folder, and I think it deserves to be shared.

Work is killing me. My eyes feel rough, and if I get to choose between a million dollars and sleeping, I definitely choose the million dollars. I’m tired, but still I’m not stupid.
I’ve just seen this video (freakin’ cool!) and as I’m so tired and I don’t want to write, I’ll post a bunch of funny pictures.




