ChapterZero

Is Google trying to take over the world? First, their incredibly successful and popular search engine, that becomes synonymous with the use of Internet searching technologies. Then, Gmail, which busts pass the previous storage limits of web-based email services and in my opinion, has begun a paradigm shift in email storage techniques analogous to the manner in which Java supplemented inheritance with interfaces— viz., the replacement of a mutually exclusive, hierarchical folder structure with a flat and versatile labeling system. Now, there’s Google print, a system which allows publishers to put parts of their books online for searching; currently in beta test. Then there’s Google desktop search, your own personal Google for your computer. Wow. What is up with the crazy programmers at Google? Are they bored?

Possibly relevant posts:

• Google said what? (6/12/2008)
• PaperbackSwap.com (10/11/2007)
• Awesome email posting abilities of Wordpress (8/30/2004)