Googleopoly!
I am back after a brief hiatus, and as I write this 100's of 1000 people in the southern state of Louisiana are struggling to cope with the damages caused by the hurricane Katrina. This morining I was watching an interview of Indian born congressman Bobby Jindal, even he was left homeless stranded in the aerodome where 1000's are being provided with food, shelter and other essentials. Some insurance companies may even close down or file for chapter 11 as damages have crossed the 16 billion dollar mark.
As Katrina unleashed her fury on the oil rich Gulf of Mexico, the gas prices are expected to rise further, some gas stations have put up signs that they are running short or out of gas. AAA has even adivised that people use their automobiles less frequently until the gas situation comes back to normal. Gas prices may touch the $3.5 mark in certain parts of the country, but else where in the world in places like India gas prices are nearly at $4.10 a gallon and closing in on the $5 mark.
Recently I read a statement by George Bush which was totaly ludicrous, blaming India for the rising oil prices, he claimed that India had to find alternate means of energy and its growing demand for oil was the reason for rising oil prices. He fails to realize that U.S.A consumes 22 million barrels of oil a day more than any other country in the world, in comparison to a meagre 2 million barrels a day in India.
On the topic of automobiles and rising prices, about a week back I had a minor repair on my car where I had to replace my brake pads and shoes, this cost me in excess of $500 , something that would have cost me less than $100 in India. On another occasion the rear bumper of my freinds car was damaged and to get it repaired it cost nearly 20% of the cost of the car, so in reality rising gas prices are a very trivial issue.
Onto other stories, the U.S open tennis championship got underway this week with top favourites Roger Federer and Kim Clijsters. In a shocker, reigning champion American Andy Roddick was ousted in the very first round and so was Svetlana Kuznetsova, the reigning women's champion. This years championship might also be the last time we see American veteran Andre Agassi. There is good news for Indian fans as Sania Mania is still going strong, she stormed into the third round to set up a clash with a 42nd ranked WTA player, Sania is now ranked 43 in the world.
Now onto something I have been following very closely for many years now, we might be seeing the most important phenomenon in the world of technology as Google just launched two important programs this week, Google-talk and and its upgraded desktop search program Google desktop-2, being a self confessed Google fanatic, I call this "Googleopoly"! It seems like every industry is on the edge about Google. The company seems to be able to do anything and totally kick butt! Google all of a sudden now looks more powerful that the menacing Microsoft. Google is now pursuing its philosophy of "Google Everywhere" , finding ways to make Google a constant in everyones communications, entertainment and Information handling.
Google is this era's transformational computing platform!
As Katrina unleashed her fury on the oil rich Gulf of Mexico, the gas prices are expected to rise further, some gas stations have put up signs that they are running short or out of gas. AAA has even adivised that people use their automobiles less frequently until the gas situation comes back to normal. Gas prices may touch the $3.5 mark in certain parts of the country, but else where in the world in places like India gas prices are nearly at $4.10 a gallon and closing in on the $5 mark.
Recently I read a statement by George Bush which was totaly ludicrous, blaming India for the rising oil prices, he claimed that India had to find alternate means of energy and its growing demand for oil was the reason for rising oil prices. He fails to realize that U.S.A consumes 22 million barrels of oil a day more than any other country in the world, in comparison to a meagre 2 million barrels a day in India.
On the topic of automobiles and rising prices, about a week back I had a minor repair on my car where I had to replace my brake pads and shoes, this cost me in excess of $500 , something that would have cost me less than $100 in India. On another occasion the rear bumper of my freinds car was damaged and to get it repaired it cost nearly 20% of the cost of the car, so in reality rising gas prices are a very trivial issue.
Onto other stories, the U.S open tennis championship got underway this week with top favourites Roger Federer and Kim Clijsters. In a shocker, reigning champion American Andy Roddick was ousted in the very first round and so was Svetlana Kuznetsova, the reigning women's champion. This years championship might also be the last time we see American veteran Andre Agassi. There is good news for Indian fans as Sania Mania is still going strong, she stormed into the third round to set up a clash with a 42nd ranked WTA player, Sania is now ranked 43 in the world.
Now onto something I have been following very closely for many years now, we might be seeing the most important phenomenon in the world of technology as Google just launched two important programs this week, Google-talk and and its upgraded desktop search program Google desktop-2, being a self confessed Google fanatic, I call this "Googleopoly"! It seems like every industry is on the edge about Google. The company seems to be able to do anything and totally kick butt! Google all of a sudden now looks more powerful that the menacing Microsoft. Google is now pursuing its philosophy of "Google Everywhere" , finding ways to make Google a constant in everyones communications, entertainment and Information handling.
Google is this era's transformational computing platform!
posted by GS at 9:25 AM
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