Is Google trying to control the world?
Yes, by both large and miniscule ways.
By the way it’s dominating the virtual world of searches now it is no surprise if we feel that way especially when we hear of the latest happenings in Google World.
First the Android Guide rule book for apps devs; and then the Google ‘Search Plus Your World’ Option that purportedly makes your searches more relevant according to who you are and who your virtual social network tags you to be.
The First Complain is naturally because when it comes to advocating the true spirit of application development, chaos should rule. How the apps look and feel like, how they are designed, styled, patterned and theme…should be Open and Unfettered.
And, excuses like ‘…the loss of brand identity’ should not come into play, especially only NOW when there is already close to half a billion Android apps floating around. Software developers are the life behind any OS or platform. So unlike Apple who from Day One propagated and kept its ‘stick by the rules’ apps dev condition, Google should be consistent and remove the Guide.
Second Pain is when your search engines starts to involve data in the users’ social network; it will inevitably compromise the standard of independent search results that we are looking for in the first place! Nope, we do not want our friends’ opinions on a travel hotel stay recommendation – if we wanted that, we could ask them instead of searching for trip advice. Google should stick to Google search and let Facebook do its job of grouping interests together.
However this is not the first time that Google has gotten itself into the sticky conundrums of what it thinks best for the virtual world and trying to control how people use it.
Remember when it paid Twitter to feed it information about hottest talkabouts in town for its Real-Time Search?
Or how Google maps is being accused of prioritising their paying advertisers’ locations on top of search results?
IT BYTES BACK! says: . Give me back plain Google any day! Don’t tell us how to search, just do what you do best and spend the money to cut off more nanoseconds from your ‘Search Results’ turnaround.
