Firefox extensions from Google

[Emit]

Google Safe Browsing
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/saf ... index.html

Google Safe Browsing is an extension to Firefox that alerts you if a web page that you visit appears to be asking for your personal or financial information under false pretences

Blogger Web Comments
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/web ... index.html

Blogger Web Comments for Firefox is an extension that makes it easy to see what bloggers are saying about a page you're viewing in Firefox and even make your own blog post about it, all without leaving the page you're on.

There is already an article up on oreillynet.com about possible problems with the safe browsing extention.

Now for the discussion, Google is currently worth about 125 billion, with current stock at $425.40 per a share. Microsoft is at $26.97 per a share and is worth $287 billion. Now there are people already predicting that Google will pass $500 per a share in 2006, it's not unlikely that Google will eventually be worth more then 200 billion, maybe someday they will surpass Microsoft.

However, I cannot imagine that Google can maintain this wealth. This is a company that provides almost no retail products, everything they offer is nearly free. I have a feeling that their stock will eventually plummet. Unless they do something big and actually sell it, like an operating system. Also with Firefox growing and people using extensions (like Adblock), I have a feeling a large group of people have learned to block Ad Sense and advertisement in general. This is slowly chipping away at Google. What do you guys think?

[+JuggerNaut+]

i think i need coffee.

[Emit]

I'm currently drinking Maxwell House, Mellow Roast with some honey.

[seremtan]

i think will google will grow and grow until it achieves symbiosis with a sandworm and rules the universe as a god emperor

i think i need coffee too

[bitWISE]

I'm going to make sure I install the first one next time I go to my mom's. The nice thing about building her a PC is that I was able to set Firefox as the default web browser from the go so she had no reason to use IE instead. I figure a phone call about some website not working is better than one about the entire computer not working.

[Iccy]

However, I cannot imagine that Google can maintain this wealth. This is a company that provides almost no retail products, everything they offer is nearly free. I have a feeling that their stock will eventually plummet. Unless they do something big and actually sell it, like an operating system. Also with Firefox growing and people using extensions (like Adblock), I have a feeling a large group of people have learned to block Ad Sense and advertisement in general. This is slowly chipping away at Google. What do you guys think?

Look around more. Google is soaking up people in key positions from many companies. I noticed it when they sucked up that guy from M$ and decided he was so important that they would go to court with M$ over his hiring. They have people from mozilla, ms and many others which i cant seem to remember right now. Point is this, the google you see before you is nothing more then the infant stage i think. They have feelers out all over the place and a probing the market and seeing where the cash is. I think you will see google rise up in the next few years and become huge. I dont know about some of the rumors you hear, like a google OS ( though a browser seems in the works with the possible aquisition of opera ) or whatever else floats around out there, but google has the tech buzz behind it, meaning most tech people have a fuzzy feeling related to the word google and the cash to venture out into new areas and now have or are gathering gurus in each area they are interested in.

Dont think google is going anywhere, anytime soon. Some people are going to kill on the stocks too.

[Emit]

I hope you are right, but I don’t necessarily want such a huge company controlling so much on the internet. Even now they have a lot of control, nearly everyone is using at least one or two of their services.

Some of their policies are becoming very strict/Microsoft like, like Adsense and Google video. They are also tracking millions of computers, who knows what they plan to do with the information? I’m afraid they will choose money over people.

[Grudge]

Very interesting articles about Google (and Microsoft):

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051117.html

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051124.html

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051201.html

Just the fact that they are buying lots of dark fiber and placing their own data centers all around the globe (effectively building their own Internet, parallell to the original one), is quite fascinating.

[mrd]

I think Google has a one up on M$ in that their name is used everywhere. I've seen quite a few movies where people say "Just google it" and everyone knows what's up. That's a pretty big deal.

[Massive Quasars]

I'm interested in what Google will do with distributed computing, they seem to have some sort of arrangement with Folding@home atm through their toolbar.

[+JuggerNaut+]

the whole dollar sign associated with Microsoft is played out. first off, you're probably using their products. if you felt so compelled to show your distaste in MS products, perhaps you should go open source or go the way of the Mac. secondly, Google will be getting bigger and more powerful as the years progress. do tell - when do you apply a dollar sign to them?

[bitWISE]

the whole dollar sign associated with Microsoft is played out. first off, you're probably using their products. if you felt so compelled to show your distaste in MS products, perhaps you should go open source or go the way of the Mac. secondly, Google will be getting bigger and more powerful as the years progress. do tell - when do you apply a dollar sign to them?

Yeah I did the M$ thing for a while but now that I've seen the competition I'm happy MS is around. Windows, Visual Studio, and Office more than redeem them IMO.