The Google Sun Dance

Better Known As The Stanford Waltz In E Minor

Many small webmasters and bloggers, like myself, were
disappointed by the very benign announcement by
Sun (Stanford University Network) Microsystems and
Google this week.

On the surface, (Read what they want us to know!) there
didn't seem to be much announced - except the plan to
promote Google's toolbar with Java downloads, and vague
plans for the future - nothing for the small webmaster
to get excited about.

Very disappointing when you consider these Dance Partners
have a very long history, they all started at Stanford University.
Andy Bechtolsheim, one of Sun’s co-founders, gave Larry Page
and Sergey Brin $100,000 in 1998 so that Google could be
incorporated. And Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, spent 14 years
working under Sun's CEO Scott McNealy.
www.msnbc.msn.com.

Where are these Dance Partners headed?

One was hoping for some major announcement like a Google browser,
operating system or even a revolutionary device in the mode of
Apple's Ipod - a totally wireless device that would cough up
the Internet and all of Google's vast resources, e-mail, maps,
instant messaging, search engine SERPs included. SERPs that's
preloaded and updated instantly (Via RSS, Java!) with Google's
index into one powerful educational and marketing machine.

Such a module could even piggy-back onto present day notebook
computers and operating systems but a much more novel approach
would be to create a completely independent contained system
on some cool looking device.

For such a revolutionary device you would need say - free Wi-Fi,
maybe a Satellite Delivery System worthy of the attention of Nasa
and definitely some very powerful servers - wonder what entity could
easily supply those...

I better stop before I get myself into trouble - this is all
pure speculation but even the small webmaster can wonder what
the heck Google is up to. But Google's style seems to be much
more low-key. If we do get a Google browser, it will suddenly
just pop up one day on the Google main page - in beta of
course.

However, I believe the real major event that Google orchestrated
lately is the offer of free Wi-Fi to the San Francisco area. Just
wonder where they're going with this?

Is this the start of a beautiful friendship - will Google take
it further. Lets face it - someone has to offer a global
'free wireless network' - why not Google. It you judge Google
by its past products - it is more than qualified to produce a
quality system.

A global world broadcasting system, (video, sound and Internet)
delivered free of charge and supported by advertising. And if
Google was smart, they would create their own delivery device -
control the whole shebang - with a little help from some newly
acquired dance partners.

Totally free wireless Internet for the whole wide world accessed
anywhere and everywhere on a small portable hand held computer.

Now that's a tune every small webmaster can dance to!



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