Google is not God - It's not even Eric Clapton

From Danny Sullivan on Search Engine Watch

>>>We get more irrational exuberance of the type I haven't seen since 2003, when New York Times quoted someone comparing Google to God. This time, Google slips in the view of one to:

Google is the realization of everything that we thought the Internet was going to be about but really wasn't until Google.

Oh, come on! Get a grip. Google offers search results, wasn't the first to do that, did raise the bar and stayed ahead for about two years, but Yahoo and Ask Jeeves in particular deliver a great experience as well. This makes Google the realization of everything the internet was supposed to be?

Yep, Google does cool things. Gmail is cool and an advancement, but again, one that others have caught up with (and don't make you use a flippin' SMS messaging system to sign-up for it). Google Maps is way cool and another advancement, but it's hardly the realization of everything the internet was to be about.

Heck, I don't even know that anyone can agree on what the internet was supposed to be about, but I darn well know that if I grab 10 people off the street, they won't all agree that Google is the sum total of everything. In the end, Google and any search engines aren't everything. They are only pointers to everything, to the actual content that people want.<<<

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