The Lazy Dev

In December, Asa Dotzler, from the Mozilla Foundations, had some concern about Google privacy policy and ended this short blog post telling people how to switch to Bling search engine. Also, use the Microsoft product instead of Google ones.
This week, the latest alpha version of the next Ubuntu incarnation (due the end of April) have Yahoo as default search engine for the Operating System and Firefox as well. Yahoo simply pays more revenue than Google to Canonical.

Small pieces. But indeed, if you foresee a little longer than the next quarter, you can see that something is changing. Google is no able to compete on the real time search and the social search in general, which started becoming really relevant since end of 2008. Google put a lot of effort in promoting open source. Their way of course, but they actually are the most open company between the big ones, indeed.

Despite this, something is going wrong. I do not know if it's because people perceive the Big Evil behind the "we are not evil" face. I think is something different. From my perception, the problem is that Google is no more able to produce a single rocking product since they released Google maps/earth.
No Single One. And their best services are no more evolving as good as we expect.

Search is no more able to produce good content if we focus on recent results. GMail is still a great product but when you compare to some other communication platform (twitter based) you can smell the oldness and rigidity, in perspective. And if you go to see the new Bing Maps demo well... just go :)

As a disclaimer, I am not against Google or whatever company. I am with people that are best for future and I pretend to be able to read what will be nice in five years, not just in the next five months.