Comment about: Google Chrome: Disruptive Technology
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| September 08, 2008 | | What I see in Chrome is just another me too product like the multitude of 40 or so products Google boasts. | I see many reasons why Chrome is not going to stand the test of time. Google may have garnered the best talent from around the world. But the 40 or so products except for a handful of them are barely in use. For the amount of people who visit the google site every day, a very very tiny fraction (the nerds and geeks) are the only ones who are using any of those products. examples: book search, checkout, desktop, finance, goog-411, knol, talk, etc. None of these have seen the light of day. They were all brought with the intention of replacing one or more of the Microsoft products, but people don't even talk about them anymore. Basically Google is a one hit wonder with the search. Of course youtube, google earth, picasa, blog, and orkut have the right following, but they all carry the tag 'Not Invented Here'. Google Chrome is currently faster since it is not bloated yet like Firefox or IE. But once more features are added to it, one will find that the little speed gain will not offset the deep suspicion people have now that anything they type in Chrome will get stored in the google servers for the rest of their lives and beyond. That alone will thwart the ability of Chrome to float to the top.
I just compared the google stock with Microsoft. If you had invested $100 in microsoft exactly one year ago, you will have $90 left now. If you had invested that money on the same day in google instead you will have only $85 now. Google already is overpriced because of the hype.
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