I think some of the coverage Google is getting is hysterical, undeserved and leaves time for other things happening in the tech world unnoticed and sparsely covered by the people who can get additional traction. Bloggers that show up in places like memeorandum are in a special situation where they can get a spotlight on different stories than Google. Where are the up and coming next wizards in their garages or leaky basements? As mentioned above a blog that focuses on all things Google, like yours, is different from this one in the sense that some readers aren’t expecting to read Google this and Google that every day. I guess yesterday when I wrote this I was feeling a bit Google constipated. I’m still rolling around an idea of a game and making this something fun instead of something negative.

None of this means of course that I won’t be writing about Google today, tomorrow and the next day or maybe three times in a row. Just thinking aloud. That’s what I do here.

Well, from what I remember, I said, “Hey buddy” and then made some great points about how:

a) if you ignore Google you might as well ignore current events; they’re big news, and you’d need to be an ostrich to have your head so far in the sand as to not see them and have something to say

b) Google is more in the news for bad reasons, most involving the government, and when it does get good press, it is over small products or features that are sometimes targeted at early adopters

c) if Google keep getting bad press, they’ll eventually try to deperately get their image back up, and that’s what’ll kill them. That need to meet expectations is what killed Netscape development, where they were too afraid to release, and by the time they did, they had lost. Google could fall in a similar trap, stopping to release betas or anything until its polished and jaw-dropping, and thus product development cycles will take so long and get so bogged down in committee, and Microsoft will be sitting pretty, writing code and shipping product that people use.

I first listened to you on webtalk and have been reading you for about a year off and on.

I like your site and I think I will byte my lip for a while. I would hate to ware out my welcome.

The Google news cycle will work itself out. I just think for such a large group of smart people they have been doing some stupid things lately. Maybe if the stock cools off and everybody sees that they can do bad products too the news will get back to the proportion of the market they actually have.