For the longest time, Google has focused on doing everything better than the other guy, resulting in all kinds of new technologies, products, and new ways to reinvent the wheel. Now Google's leadership is asking its employees to focus more on
how to perfect the wheel, not reinvent it. Now Google is going to make all they do better, instead of coming out with new services. It is a good move, to dial-in your products, enhance and lock-down security even more. Google has traditionally been good at this anyway, but now they are going to focus on the strength and robustness of their products. That is never a bad thing for any organization.
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ThatRonGuy said 10:02PM on 10-08-2006
Plain and simple, I think that they have taken the right step.
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Nature of Mathematics said 12:11PM on 10-09-2006
For a company supposedly as forward-thinking as they are, I'm surprised. I've always heard how letting their employees work on whatever interests them was the bee's kness. Some people have been calling for something like this for at least two years, as the neverending stream of mediocre me-too unfinished products poured out of Google.
They've got search, they've got Adwords/Adsense, and a cool (slightly unreliable) email system. And now they've got a pile of halfway products to maintain, welcome to reality.
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2012 Mustang News said 4:44PM on 10-10-2006
Well this can be a good thing, or a bad thing depending on how you look at it.
Pros: Google finally finishes some of its features and take them out of beta. I mean come on some of these things have been in beta for so long with few changes since their release.
Cons: Google fails to come up with new and inovative ideas and falls behind when the next up and coming search engine does.
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Aaron said 12:00AM on 10-21-2006
A very good move. Instead of just focusing resources on new features, better give a chunk of their resources into perfecting what they have. New features will pop up anyway, maintenance is key. And if even if Google would ever lag behind the competition, they can always copy that innovation and perfect it. Giving them the upperhand anyway.
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