So Yeah, Google’s Taking Over

Google are taking over – not the world (yet), but the entire Tech industry at the moment is likely preparing for a market takeover. If it’s not enough to release a phone, plan a tablet, create a mobile operating system, and prepare an operating system for computers, launch every web app even plausible, including email, word-processing and spreadsheets, search engine, photo editing, apps for domains, the largest chunk of the web advertising industry, and so much more, Google have some more things to take a nice bite out of.

Over the past two days we’ve seen some pretty important releases for the industry – namely the launch of Google Buzz, which is essentially an ugly Twitter integrated into GMail, and the launch of a 1GBp/s Fiber-to-home network.

As Google writes on its Blog:

We’re planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We’ll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We plan to offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.

While yeah, that’s fantastic and all, it’s a move by Google again, and 1Gbps is blooming fast (it’s about 125 megabytes every second). That means you can download a song in 2 seconds, a video clip in 20, and a movie in 2 minutes. Fast, much! But it puts pressure on the competitors. Google claims it fuels innovation, as it forces the other companies to upgrade and become better, cheaper and faster.

However, what I’m really seeing is perhaps a mass profit raise for Google – a market takeover of the entire tech industry could be in order. If Google start selling their own laptops, and then their own tablet computers, to go along with the other products their making, it seems highly logical that they’re aiming for something – Google Buzz is nothing more than Twitter. It’s less, even.

But why release products that are exactly the same as your competitors? It even calls your friends ‘followers’. If Google are so into fueling innovation, they would be releasing innovative products, not take the competitors product and merge it into their own. That’s not innovation – it’s simply copying.

Anyway, to not distract from the point, here is the point that I”m going to target at – Google are gonna do something big. I bet. And hell, it may just be market takeover.

I can’t wait for Google supermarkets.