NO Google Deathblow to Facebook on November 5
Right out of the Read-Write-Web gate, Marshall Kirkpatrick stays true to his TechCrunch roots: High fiving ex-boss Michael Arrington for supposedly “convincing” prospective Google partners to illicitly disclose proprietary Google data, and then seeking to one-up him with a beware Google big social brother imagined scenario.
Kirkpatrick to the Google rescue, however, because he deems Google to “need help” in getting its ”messaging” right; To “our” resuce as well, apparently, as he warns of “what’s at stake.”
BUT, is there really something at stake, under the Arrington envisaged Google takeover of the social Web? Kirkpatrick believes he speaks for the Web, but he doesn’t.
Kirkpatrick claims, not only does “Google hold our search histories, our email, our calendars…the meaning of our spoken words,” but it even supports academic engineering research, such as analysis of Interactive TV applications. OH MY!
Contrary to Kirkpatrick’s overblown headline, however, Google DOES NOT hold the key to “all knowledge” and it most certainly will NOT be enveloping any such thing as of November 5, 2007, despite what Read-Write-Web and TechCrunch want to believe (or tout).
Kirkpatrick says “we and others have long called on Google to open up our own data to our own access” but the reality is that not only has the run-of-the-mill Google searcher NOT clamored for such “openness,” he or she does not even provide Google their social graph data to begin with!
The blogosophere may be 99% Gmail pure, but the Web at large is far from it. Bloggers may jump on every new Google App, but Internet users are still by and large solidly Microsoft Office powered. GOOG 411? What’s that! Google “holds our search histories”? The good ones only by permission.
Google AND Facebook are probably having a chuckle today over the vivid imaginatons of Michael Arrington and blogosphere company.
READ THE REAL BACK STORY: Got Ethics? Google Rats Lured by TechCrunch Trap
ALSO: Mint.com: Can Arrington and Calacanis Really Set Web 2.0 Trends? and Facebook Plots Social Network Patent: What Graph? and The Social Graph Circa 2004, in Europe