HDO-> beyond 2004

[rushy]

Originally Posted by An article in today's IAB Smartbrief

Google is quiet about its future technological plans, but industry experts think the search giant is seriously considering ways to deeply embed itself into users' computer operating systems, allowing it to act as a gateway for a slew of services.

I was just presented with a horrific/terrific thought.

The Scenario:
Lets just suppose for a minute that Broadband evolves internet connectivity to a reality where we are online all of the time, I don't just mean the 50% or however many are using Broadband now, but a futuristic society were constant connectivity is a paradigm.

Then suppose that Google develops technology that can actually check your PC! (your hard disk: games, articles, programs) for relevancy - similar to AdSense/Gmail technology now - then let's put the final nail in the coffin and suggest that Google continues to build its brand at the present rate.

Now, somewhere in the future, far far away, an uninformed user leaves his broadband pc online and goes to have dinner. He returns, only to find that he has been hit by a google bot. Now he is presented with a certification box similar to those that appear nowadays:

"Always trust content from Google Inc."
"Yes" he chooses, confident that the mega corp Google is harmless....

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And then the daunting reality hits me, google actually crawls your PC the way it crawls the internet and serves relevant advertisements therein not only capturing data for direct marketing, but choosing relevant targets for its omnipresent advertising powers. Talk about invasion of privacy...and in an age of ever increasing technological integration, bluetooth, could it then be conceivable that the mighty Google can begin to catalogue more than the information logged on your PC? But what TV you watch, what radio you listen to, what ring tone you use....

I can't help but stand faced with a minority report-esque reality where Google is, beyond all search engine foundation, our new God.

HDO....opening the case for Hard Disk Optimisation......

[kkibak]

just a "LITTLE" far fetched....

[toddieg]

crazy talk....

[RonHollingsworth]

I'll take what you're smokin'.

[Thanol]

I think Mircosoft would be more likely to start doing that than Google.

[seonewbee]

I forgot where I geard it, but I heard that google wants to greate it's own operating system. Then where you be?

[awall19]

currently I like Google more than MicroSoft and would gladly buy their eventual operating system (which for some reason I think they will give away free)

[rushy]

yeah, arent microsoft re-inventing their next line of OS software based around a more "google-like" file searching system?

and Id take a google OS over an MS one too, no question.

[Dabbers]

Maybe it will be a Linux distro? I hope it's easier than the easiest version out there, or else no one will adopt it.

Actually, NTFS uses a search index on your files if you turn it on already (for Windows XP systems.)

as for HDO, I'll be updating my hard drive all the time with news downloads... i'll create a directory called c:\updated-daily\ and put a index.html file there, hehehhe.

or, if you want out, just spam your own drive, maybe they'll ban it. heck, some of my directories (aka folders) are full of spam (for the bayesian filters to eat.)

[trevHCS]

Originally Posted by rushy

I was just presented with a horrific/terrific thought.

This is horrific? There are pottentially many advantages, eg:

- Google could help organise your social life by having an events suggestion icon in the system tray. It would gather the data from your e-mails, where you went on the web, even whether you had a particular pop or film star on your desktop wallpaper, then go searching for their nearest tour dates and present these in a clean easy to read format.

- If you complain in MSN that theres nothing on TV, it could go off and work out what you liked then tell the TV exec's they need to reschedule X, Y or Z program and offer it to your PC based TIVO.

- If the fridge is connected by Bluetooth, Froogle could go off and find the cheapest price of whatever brand of butter you like and then ask the fridge to order it (already possible).

- It could even analyse your homework and if there was a particular question that was causing you trouble, it could post on a number of forums then present you with the various answers.

See, Google is your friend, embrace Google and remember Google is God.

Google actually crawls your PC the way it crawls the internet and serves relevant advertisements therein not only capturing data for direct marketing

Probably do a better job than the current spyware that seems to do this, but theres an easy way to block it, Zonealarm.

In theory Google could do that for sure and probably wouldn't need constant broadband just like the spyware, the adverts only appear when it can connect to the remote server.

I can't help but stand faced with a minority report-esque reality where Google is, beyond all search engine foundation, our new God.

Well we at Trev's Wacky Ideas Inc. have proof that God is a search engine therefore wouldn't you prefer Google to be God rather than MSN?

Of course there is one advantage we have over Google - you can always pull the plug on the Internet or turn off the computer.

HDO....opening the case for Hard Disk Optimisation.....

Now theres an idea - we could have Google bot check our hard drives and then have a Google engineer remotely tap in and try to fix any bad sectors byte by byte without ever knowing there was a problem.


Hmm....does this mean that Microsoft will one day not become the dominent force in computing?

As for operating systems, I believe Google already have one running on their systems or at least a completely new filing system that scales to terrabytes across 100,000's of computers.


Trev

[Dabbers]

Originally Posted by trevHCS

- It could even analyse your homework and if there was a particular question that was causing you trouble, it could post on a number of forums then present you with the various answers.

Trev

Google Answers (but that's not free unless your homework has already been answered.)