http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/01/can_google_still_innovate.html en-gb 30 Thu 24 Dec 2009 22:03:34 GMT+1 A feed of user comments from the page found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/01/can_google_still_innovate.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/01/can_google_still_innovate.html?page=17#comment6 Google got to where they are by providing a better search experience at a time when most engines delivered poor results. They remain where they are by delivering new ways to search and, most importantly, monetize information access. Most of the projects at http://labs.google.com/ and the like never make it to full public use, but the killer ones do (maps, local search, etc) and they make big money for Google. To them innovation = money, so I doubt we'll see them stop trying new things anytime soon. Tue 20 Jan 2009 15:34:19 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/01/can_google_still_innovate.html?page=14#comment5 During my interview with Barry Swartz from the Search Engine Roundtable http://www.businessservicesuk.com/businessarticle/Interview_With_Barry_Schwartz_85 we discussed in detail Google and its future direction and how it was not just maintaing the lead as the number 1 search engine provider but building on it Wed 14 Jan 2009 22:04:39 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/01/can_google_still_innovate.html?page=11#comment4 Have you seen Googles new favicon? It's a Windows logo turned through ninety degrees with a white "g" superimposed.Should we read anything into this? Fri 09 Jan 2009 19:44:34 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/01/can_google_still_innovate.html?page=8#comment3 There is a major issue with Google's innovation style that gets lost in the Hype.They are terrible at polishing products in a timely fashion.Take for example Google Apps, probably one of the cleverer of their offerings.However, there is a plethora of small bugs, incomplete features and missing vital features, regularly pointed up on their own Google Apps Group, that have seen no movement when it comes to fixing in months.Unlike many other open source solutions, where when a problem is found, the developers and community try and find some sort of solution in a hurry, Google appears to "leave it for another day."The users, who after all through their exposure to advertising are making Google money, dont even get the hope from regular posts saying things like, "Yes, we see the problem, and this is what we are doing about it ... "Instead there is a virtual silence, or just a one off comment on a blog with no follow up.It feels like they think it is more important to their Brand Profile to keep coming up with new offerings rather than just getting the existing ones working properly.For instance, millions of users of Google Sites are desperately waiting for some recoverable way of backing up their site - something talked about by google once many, many months ago, and then mysteriously removed from their help pages. Thu 08 Jan 2009 09:36:26 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/01/can_google_still_innovate.html?page=5#comment2 They've persuaded me to use Google Chrome, Google Mail, Google Reader, Google Calendar, Google Maps, Google Desktop and a few other services (including plain old Google Search, dozens of times every day), so they must be doing something right. I look forward to seeing what they come up with in future. Thu 08 Jan 2009 02:01:32 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/01/can_google_still_innovate.html?page=2#comment1 Rory:Can Google still innovate? Yes, they can always innovate and still be an important company....PS: I do have an email account with Google....~Dennis Junior~ Wed 07 Jan 2009 20:30:57 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/01/can_google_still_innovate.html?page=0#comment0 "presumably to avoid disturbing any geniuses working below" that or they just consider it impolite to break the ballast in the cues ;-) Wed 07 Jan 2009 17:18:42 GMT+1