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Daily Archives: December 23, 2004

Analysis of What Lies Ahead for Google and Microsoft As They Compete in 2005

What’s Next for Google, by Charles H. Ferguson:

  • “Google seeks to become the gatekeeper for not only the public Web but also the “dark” or hidden Web of private databases, dynamically generated pages, controlled-access sites, and Web servers within organizations (estimated to be tens or even hundreds of times larger than the public Web); the data on personal computer hard drives; and the data on consumer devices ranging from PDAs to cell phones to iPods to digital cameras to TiVo players.”