I’m a big Google fan. I use Gmail, Gtalk, Picasa, Google Earth \/ Maps… the works, but as a user, using all this “free” Google software, made me think about the companies and developers who base their work and products on Google platforms like Google Maps and Adsense. These companies and developers are not just a few, actually it’s a growing group each passing day. Tags like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153geo” \/ “map\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \/ “planet” are beginning to crowd the names of applications and websites, all them depending on Google Maps. When surfing the web, the majority of blogs present us with Google Ads, and the so called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pro-blogers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d depend ultimately on web site ads, being most of them from Google. Millions of users have a Gmail account and use it as their main email account, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m one of them and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been deprived of my Gmail account once so I can say it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a nice experience.<\/p>\n
My question is: what if something bad happens to Google? Or, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not be so drastic and more realistic, what if Google starts to charge money for their products? Would Google Maps be so famous and so broadly used if it was a paid product? Would Gmail had so many users even offering 2Gb of mail storage if it was paid? I guess not. <\/p>\n
Google dependency is one of the effects of the Web 2.0, a very dangerous dependency not because of Google as a company, but because of the amount of people depending on one single entity.<\/p>\n
[tags]Google, Google Dependency, Web 2.0[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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