Google’s Future - Sam Walton Taught Google More About How to Dominate the Internet Than Microsoft Ever Did
Nov 25th, 2005 by Neo
Play to your strengths. That’s the key to success in any industry. This is the week I promised to explain where I think Google is headed, and playing to the company’s strengths is key if they are going to do what I think, which is effectively take over the Internet. Oh they won’t steal it or strong-arm us. They’ll seduce us into giving it to them. And I am not at all sure that’s a bad thing.

Google, Microsoft and Wal-Mart. Picture courtesy of Zorgloob.
Google’s strengths are searching, development of Open Source Internet services, and running clusters of tens of thousands of servers. Notice on this list there is nothing about operating systems. There are many rumors about Google doing an operating system to compete with Microsoft.
Extracted from a very interesting article about Google’s future by Robert X. Cringely. Read about Cringely’s view on rumours that Google is going to turn into a super ISP, about Google’s AJAX Office, Google’s Web Accelerator, Google’s Search Appliance, and much more.
Tell me what you think after you read that article ya? Give some comments please. Thanks
The article talked about Sam Walton (March 29, 1918 – April 5, 1992); he was the founder of the giant American retailers Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club. Forbes ranked Sam Walton as the richest man in the United States from 1985 to 1988, ceding the top spot to John Kluge in 1989 only because the editors began to credit Walton’s fortune jointly to him and his four children. Bill Gates first headed the list in 1992, the year Walton died.


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Google dominance has seemed to be a more benovolent one than the way Microsoft took power- which was by arm0twisting, threats, leverage, etc.
As for google doing an operating system, I wouldn’t rule it out. Forget about Linux or anything else which has been a perceived threat to MS in the past (AOL, Netscape, OS/2, etc)- Microsoft fears Google, as they should.