As I’ve mentioned plenty of times before on this site, I believe that Google is on the decline. I believe they reached their peak years ago and have begun that slow descent into the great abyss. I believe that they’ve been slacking in the innovation area as they haven’t really done a whole lot to improve their claim to fame, the Google Search. Please don’t misread into this. I’m not saying that Google will be filing for bankruptcy any time soon. I’m simply saying that they should be watching over their shoulder for a new solution to knock them from their pirch. I completely believe that as I type this, there are probably several groups already working on a newer, better, more modern search engine that will give Google a run for the money.
And, after reading an article from ex-Google engineer Dhanji R. Prasanna, I believe that all of my assumptions about Google being old, out-dated, and behind the times in innovation are correct. In his article “Waving Goodbye”, Dhanji makes several statements about Google’s technology as being “truly obsolete” and “ancient, creaking dinosaurs”. During the “Speed” section of his post, he mentions how “new projects like GWT, Closure, and MegaStore are sluggish, overengineered Leviathans compared to fast, elegant tools like jQuery and mongoDB. Designed by engineers in a vacuum, rather than by developers who have need of tools.” Even Mark Zuckerberg has stated that most projects can be designed, developed, and completed within 24 hours because most ideas come from necessity and are conceived from small ideas. That’s why Facebook regularly hosts 24 hour hackathons. As a developer, I personally understand and agree that it’s easier, better, and more productive to create and work on tools that are a necessity as opposed to tools that are only built in hopes they will make money.
With that being said, I still have to show appreciation and respect for the behemoth as I truly believe Google has made the internet what it is today. In some way or another, whether directly or indirectly, Google has inspired technology to be designed for what we have today and persuaded companies to rethink the way they do business on the web. Unfortunately though, it’s time for us to go back to the drawing board and rethink our technologies yet again. We can’t rely on “obsolete” systems to continue being the driving force behind the greatest invention man has ever conceived, the internet.
You can read Dhanji’s complete article at http://rethrick.com/#waving-goodbye.
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