Cloud Computing: Google To Apple – “Catch Us If You Can”
May 20, 2013
Grazed from Information Week. Author: Thomas Claburn.
Google I/O 2013 has come and gone without major developments affecting the company’s two primary platforms, Android and Chrome, but the developer conference nonetheless demonstrated how Google is outpacing its competitors. Certainly, that’s evident in the numbers Google provided, 900 million Android activations to date and 750 million users of Chrome worldwide. But such statistics only sketch the outline of Google’s success.
Google began as a search company and seventeen years later, the head of the company’s search technology, Amit Singhal opened his portion of the Google I/O keynote by taking about the end of search as we know it. Even if that’s more rhetoric than reality — Google will still be in the search ad business no matter how search changes for the foreseeable future — it reveals a willingness to take risks that Apple and Microsoft seem to be unwilling or unable to match…
Singhal described how in his youth he was inspired by the computer on Star Trek, a machine capable of conversing and understanding questions. Google is developing something comparable: mobile VP Johanna Wright demonstrated a future version of Google Search that will support "hotwording," listening for a phrase like "OK Google" and then treating the words that follow as a query…
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