Dawn of the Geeks

Google has just opened up instant messaging for gmail users. Let’s do a quick run down on information streams that Google is trying to take over: Instant Messenger,Search,Blogs,E-Mail, News, Usenet

Basically all forms of on-line communications plus they know where you’re going on-line. They’re penetrating the markets by being free and relying solely on ad revenue to cover costs.

But hey, their motto is “do no evil” so I’m sure nothing bad will ever happen with them having stored indefinitly all this information. They’re also looking to digitize thousands books.

What Google isn’t doing is supplying the web with original content. Their business model is quite simply to provide the world with an easy to use infrastucture for information transmission, to gather as much information as possible from as many sources as possible and then to throw up ads and profit from it.

It’s brilliant really. I should put up a web-site like that some time.