What did Google do to deserve this...

Looking at the front page of Techmeme this morning you'd be forgiven for thinking that the bell has been tolled and the eulogies written to signal the end of Google.

Michael Arrington questions whether the Official Google Blog is entitled to call itself a blog.

Nathan Weinberg at Inside Google picks on the accidental deletion of Gmail Inboxes, Orkut having an outage and a hiccup in the ranking of some prominent sex blogs.

The New York Times features the next in line of the so-called Google killers. Yawn.

Don Dodge had the anchor story on Techmeme regarding the controvery over Google promoting it's own services in search results pages. Simply put, Google is being accused of hypocrisy, having criticised Microsoft in the past for employing similar tactics.

Wow, did we all get out of bed on the wrong side yesterday or what?

I look on 2006 as the year when I've embraced more Google services than ever and see 2007 as the year in which Google are likely to capture ever more of my attention rather than less. I think the biggest change in my online behaviour of last year was moving from Newsgator to Google Reader and finally embracing reading feeds in a river of news fashion.

I predict that in 2007 Picasa Web Albums will probably develop far enough to see me move from Flickr.

I predict that in 2007 Google Blog Search will lead to me spending less time at both Technorati and Techmeme.

I predict that in 2007 Google will do something big in the arena of either online presentations or online drawing (in other words a Powerpoint or Visio killer).

I think it's fine that we hold Google to high standards but this sniping at the "do no evil" motto and suggestions that Google have reached some mythical "end of the road" are stretching credibility a bit thin for me.

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