Is our beloved Google Dead?

Google Dead

In a recent post where cultavix had written really good article on Chrome, to which I had plainly said chrome was stupid. Come to think of it, if, we are picking up the early signs of death of the romanticism for Google .

Now have a look at the list below a few people who left google to start something “better”, why what happened? Doesn’t Google provide 20% off anymore? or It is does not respect ideas anymore. I believe they have lost it, don’t worry though google will not have a  sudden death, it will morph into Microsoft for Internet. Your Comments?

Cuil is led by Anna Patterson, a former leader of Google’s search index and her husband, Tom Costello, who researched and developed search engines at Stanford University and IBM. The two, president and CEO, respectively, met at Stanford.

A New York City startup called Howcast was launched in February 2008 and is youtube of instructional videos. In fact, the three founders—Jason Liebman, Daniel Blackman and Sanjay Raman—are ex-Google employees who worked on Google Video and YouTube before they left.

FriendFeed aims to be a one stop shop for all your social networking updates and news items. The four founders were all team members at Google and helped to launch such products as Google Maps, Adsense, GMail and Google Groups. They’ve brought their expertise to a slightly different area: social network aggregating.

Former Google Product Manger, Steffen Mueller, has launched Topicle, a new search engine community. The service, which went live today, uses a model similar to that of Wikipedia, allowing anyone to contribute to the creation and enhancement of their own vertical search engines.

Plinky, a new social media startup from ex-Googler Jason Shellen has raised a $1.5 million first round from Polaris Ventures, reports GigaOM. He actually came to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) through its 2003 acquisition of PyraLabs (parent of Blogger). So what’s Plinky? Not clear. Om suspects it has something to do with making content creation easier, and Shellen himself says that it’s not Blogger 2.0 or a MySpace-Killer (that’s good), but that it “should help make using any social site more interesting.

Sacca, 32, left the Internet search company this month for a new career as a venture capitalist. He joins a growing number of Google millionaires hoping to parlay their newfound wealth into even greater riches by bankrolling technology start-ups.

Google has lost another good one. The “godfather” of AdSense Gokul Rajaram has left his top position at Google to pursue his own ventures. Rajaram, 33, has offered no indication as to what his entrepreneurial project/s will be, but I have a feeling he’s got a few ideas cooking on the back burner. What he has said, though, is that he’s interested on the consumer Internet side.

Ooyala, a video platform founded by two seasoned Google veterans, has launched a powerful new analytics backend for its service that it calls Backlot Analytics. The new analytics software allows content providers to get an extremely detailed data on their users’ viewing behaviors, helping them tweak their ad placement and future content selection. Backlot Analytics will be available as a native application in Adobe AIR, and will also work in the browser.

Google to Internet Applications  is equal to Microsoft was/is to Software Applications, Both companies want to own everything.

This is just a partial list, I mean we get the point, Whats Your Say?

Update:

“GOOGLE controls about 70 percent of the search advertising market. Doesn’t that give it a monopolist’s ability to set prices as high as it wishes?”

Apparently more than a few traders had heart palpitations today. As the market closed, Google’s share price appeared to fall apart, falling to $200 from an opening price of $396. At least that’s what the Nasdaq ticker showed.

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