The Worst Google Development Ever
Google and I remain pretty good friends, they give me good search engine rankings and I give them posts and attention in my blog. Sure we have the occasional disagreement over their dodgy adwords auditing, running my adwords accounts without my permission and their in accurate Analytics software but we always seem to get through the bad times and I have should by her.
Today Robert Kingston of Branding Rant sent me an invitation for a new Google service called Lively located at lively.com. While it is clearly to notice they have purchased a very cool domain the entire concept of this development sucks. I’m not sure if it’s because I had development a mid week crisis or was having a bout of man-o-pause but I was kind of annoyed. I mean think of all the good ideas us entrepreneurs have that we can never find the time or money to develop and then some guy at Google gets paid a lot of money to come up with dumb ideas live this.
There is a lot of criticism in the corporate world (i.e. from Microsoft) that Google only has one profitable product and lack the ability to make commercially successful products. Well let me tell you this one is going to suck to, basically the idea is you create a virtual room and invite your friends to come chat in it. Sure Google has created a lot of good products like Google Docs, their keyword tool, traffic estimator, the Google Toolbar, Google Maps and of course Google Earth but then again a lot of them suck like Google Desktop, iGoogle, Google Checkout. The problem with this one is it’s almost rubbing in Microsoft’s face and I’m sure Mr Ballamer and his lawyers are already sharping their teeth. If you do not already know Microsoft run a search engine at Live.com which is growing quite rapidly and Live.com is currently ranked 4 on Alexa making them a force even though Alexa’s statistics suggest search is only one percent of their traffic (hard to believe).
Thats the end of my rant, will be interesting to see how long this development lasts and whether Microsoft tries to sue Google. There are probably no grounds for suing them but I’m sure Microsoft wouldn’t mind doing so just for the hell of it. In a few days I am going to share bit more information on Live and Yahoo.
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Don’t be so harsh Pete, I think it is pretty cool.