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April 19, 2006

OneBox to Rule Them All, OneBox to Find Them

OneBox to rule them all,
OneBox to find them,
OneBox to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them.
With its "OneBox for Enterprise" announcement, Google is pounding a nail into the weak heart of the portal business. Meanwhile, it is using its search trojan to reinforce its role as the information conduit of choice. After all, wherever the answer is to your internal question about company sales data, marketing trends, or production capacity, it will be Google that presents it.

OneBox indeed. Where is Frodo Baggins when you need him?

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Comments

Why stop at information? May as well drive the trojan horse right up to Redmond WA and start making every desk top application the MS ever did too. I would not mind having Excel and Word right in Firefox tabs as well. Beyond s/w languages that run on any platform, all you really need now is for an app to run in any browser.

I would not underestimate the Evil Bill Gates... (kidding i don't think he's evil) I wonder aloud for those of you in the know: who has the better talent pool, market share, business resources etc.

by market share I mean the potential share of the future market.